Network model of chemical-sensing system inspired by mouse taste buds.

abstract：:Goal directed movements, executed by means of a manipulator with various dynamics, were investigated in order to establish to what extent the loading affects the executed movement. The desired movement concept, together with a describing function model for goal directed movements, was applied to parameterize the movem...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Ruitenbeek JC

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The order parameter equation for the relative phase of correlated hand movements, derived in a previous paper by Haken et al. (1985), is extended to a time-dependent stochastic differential equation. Its solutions are determined close to stationary points and for the transition region. Remarkably good agreement betwee...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Schöner G,Haken H,Kelso JA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally held that the right and left middle ears of mammals are acoustically isolated from each other, such that mammals must rely on neural computation to derive sound localisation cues. There are, however, some unusual species in which the middle ear cavities intercommunicate, in which case each ear might be...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mason MJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchronization properties of locally coupled neural oscillators were investigated analytically and by computer simulation. When coupled in a manner that mimics excitatory chemical synapses, oscillators having more than one time scale (relaxation oscillators) are shown to approach synchrony using mechanisms very diffe...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Somers D,Kopell N

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-clamp of excitable membrane allows the measurement of membrane currents associated with electrical potential changes across the membrane. However, it has been impossible in practice to apply the conventional analog feedback voltage-clamp circuits to single electrode voltage clamping in central neurons. The rea...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kawato M,Etoh M,Oda Y,Tsukahara N

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leg movements of stick insects (Carausius morosus) making turns towards visual targets are examined in detail, and a dynamic model of this behaviour is proposed. Initial results suggest that front legs shape most of the body trajectory, while the middle and hind legs just follow external forces (Rosano H, Webb B, in T...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Rosano H,Webb B

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper examines human hand impedance characteristics, including inertia and viscosity as well as stiffness, in multi-joint arm movements. While a subject maintains a given hand location, small external disturbances are applied to his hand by a manipulandum. The corresponding force-displacement vectors are m...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Tsuji T,Morasso PG,Goto K,Ito K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Responses from neurons of the vestibular nuclei were recorded in N2O-anaesthetized cats. Most neurons in the rostral parts of the nuclei responded to bimodal visual-vestibular stimulation, following a trapezoidal velocity profile. Both combinations of the two stimuli were tested: rotation of the animal with stationary...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bauer R

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a novel optimal control algorithm to change the phase of an oscillator using a minimum energy input, which also minimizes the oscillator's transversal distance to the uncontrolled periodic orbit. Our algorithm uses a two-dimensional reduction technique based on both isochrons and isostables. We develop a no...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Monga B,Moehlis J

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal excitability under stimuli with a complex time course is investigated on the basis of the numerical solution of the Hodgkin-Huxley equations. Each stimulus is composed of 100-1000 unitary excitatory postsynaptic potentials (uEPSP) that start randomly within a definite time window. Probability of initiating a ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Vidybida AK

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper deals with the problem of representing and generating unconstrained aiming movements of a limb by means of a neural network architecture. The network produced time trajectories of a limb from a starting posture toward targets specified by sensory stimuli. Thus the network performed a sensory-motor transform...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Massone L,Bizzi E

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a function-oriented model of the visual cortex. The model addresses an essential task of the visual system: to detect and represent objects. These are defined as sets, which reappear in the input with invariant inner relations. A network, incorporating an idealized description of anatomical and physiologica...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Neven H,Aertsen A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper concerns the use of tracking studies to test a theoretical account of the information processing performed by the human CNS during control of movement. The theory provides a bridge between studies of reaction time and continuous tracking. It is proposed that the human CNS includes neuronal circuitry to comp...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Neilson PD,Neilson MD,O'Dwyer NJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccadic averaging is the phenomenon that two simultaneously presented retinal inputs result in a saccade with an endpoint located on an intermediate position between the two stimuli. Recordings from neurons in the deeper layers of the superior colliculus have revealed neural correlates of saccade averaging, indicatin...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Krommenhoek KP,Wiegerinck WA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffusion processes have been extensively used to describe membrane potential behavior. In this approach the interspike interval has a theoretical counterpart in the first-passage-time of the diffusion model employed. Since the mathematical complexity of the first-passage-time problem increases with attempts to make t...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lánský P,Sacerdote L,Tomassetti F

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work presents unified analyses of spatial and temporal visual information processing in a feed-forward network of neurons that obey membrane, or shunting equations. The feed-forward shunting network possesses properties that make it well suited for processing of static, spatial information. However, it is shown h...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gaudiano P

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper deals with characterization and modelling of human handwriting motion from two forearm muscle activity signals, called electromyography signals (EMG). In this work, an experimental approach was used to record the coordinates of a pen tip moving on the (x, y) plane and EMG signals during the handwriting act....

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Chihi I,Abdelkrim A,Benrejeb M

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models built using mean data can represent only a very small percentage, or none, of the population being modeled, and produce different activity than any member of it. Overcoming this "averaging" pitfall requires measuring, in single individuals in single experiments, all of the system's defining characteristics. We ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Blümel M,Guschlbauer C,Daun-Gruhn S,Hooper SL,Büschges A

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is proposed to determine the rigid structure as well as the three dimensional motion of an object from a sequence of orthographically projected images. It is assumed that the velocities as well as the positions of the points attached to the object are observable in the images. The "instantaneous rigidity cond...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Sugie N,Inagaki H

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simulations of neural activity are commonly based on differential equations. We address the question what can be achieved with a simplified discrete model. The proposed model resembles artificial neural networks enriched with additional biologically inspired features. A neuron has several states, and the state transit...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bazenkov NI,Boldyshev BA,Dyakonova V,Kuznetsov OP

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to obtain information on the axonal diameters of cortico-cortical fibres in the human brain, connecting distant regions of the same hemisphere via the white matter. Samples for electron microscopy were taken from the region of the superior longitudinal fascicle and from the transitional white...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Liewald D,Miller R,Logothetis N,Wagner HJ,Schüz A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper proposes multiport parallel and multidirectional intraconnected associative memories of outer product type with reduced interconnections. Some new reduced order memory architectures such as k-directional and k-port parallel memories are suggested. These architectures are, also, very suitable for implementat...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bhatti AA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, human arm movement was reconstructed from electromyography (EMG) signals using a forward dynamics model acquired by an artificial neural network within a modular architecture. Dynamic joint torques at the elbow and shoulder were estimated for movements in the horizontal plane from the surface EMG signal...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Koike Y,Kawato M

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present report presents an attempt to define the physiological parameter used to describe "voice tremor" in psychological stress evaluating machines, and to find its sources. This parameter was found to be a low frequency (5-20 Hz) random process which frequency modulates the vocal cord waveform and (independently...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Inbar GF,Eden G

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An "adaptation model" having two stages is introduced and its mathematical properties are examined. The two stages are the "adaptive process" (parameter Kb), which has bleaching-type kinetics, and the "response function" (parameters Kr and n), which incorporates response saturation. In order to study the increment thr...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Dawis SM

更新日期：1978-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The multi-channel system of the segmental muscle stretch reflex arc is modelled as an arrangement of two or three parallel "component" loops coupled to each other at spinal and at muscle level. Such a model is thought to be more realistic than the usually adopted representation of the stretch reflex as a single negati...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Koehler W,Windhorst U

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The notion that biological systems come to embody optimal solutions seems consistent with the competitive drive of evolution. It has been used to interpret many examples of sensorimotor behavior. It is attractive from the viewpoint of control engineers because it solves the redundancy problem by identifying the one op...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Loeb GE

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fitzhugh's BVP model has been used by many people. Fitzhugh has pointed out that as the stimulus is increased the model has "inverted" behaviour. It is here shown that this is due to a lack of a mechanism of inactivation, and the model is adjusted by supplying such a mechanism, to give a new model, called BPH, which, ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Game CJ

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are interesting oscillatory phenomena associated with excitable cells that require theoretical insight. Some of these phenomena are: the threshold low amplitude oscillations before bursting in neuronal cells, the damped burst observed in muscle cells, the period-adding bifurcations without chaos in pancreatic be...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Fan YS,Chay TR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of an electronic real time emulator for biology-inspired pulse processing neural networks (BPN) to recognition and temporal tracking of discrete impulse patterns via delay adaptation is demonstrated. The electronic emulation includes biologically plausible features, such as asynchronous impulses, membr...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Napp-Zinn H,Jansen M,Eckmiller R

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00