Visual perception of surface curvature. The spin variation and its physiological implications.

abstract：:In the neural superposition eye of a dipteran fly every ommatidium has eight photoreceptors, each associated with a rhabdomere, two central and six peripheral, which altogether result in seven functional light guides. Groups of eight rhabdomeres in neighboring ommatidia have largely overlapping fields of view. Based o...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bitsakos K,Fermüller C

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within a linear field approach, an architectural model for simple cell direction selectivity in the visual cortex is proposed. The origin of direction selectivity is related to recurrent intracortical interactions with a spatially asymmetric character along the axis of stimulus motion. No explicit asymmetric temporal ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Sabatini SP,Solari F

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In neural networks the activation process controls the output as a nonlinear function of the input; and, this output remains bounded between limits as decided by a logistic function known as the sigmoid (S-shaped). Presently, by applying the considerations of Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics, the Langevin function is show...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Neelakanta PS,Sudhakar R,DeGroff D

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider a general integrate-and-fire (IF) neuron driven by asymmetric dichotomous noise. In contrast to the Gaussian white noise usually used in the so-called diffusion approximation, this noise is colored, i.e., it exhibits temporal correlations. We give an analytical expression for the stationary voltage distrib...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Droste F,Lindner B

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes how a synergy made up of a pair of agonist and antagonist systems involved in the production of a rapid movement can control movement time. A quadratic law is derived to predict the movement time as a function of the various parameters describing the neuromuscular synergy. Conditions for a simplif...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Plamondon R

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Explosive movements such as throwing, kicking, and jumping are characterized by high velocity and short movement time. Due to the fact that latencies of neural feedback loops are long in comparison to movement times, correction of deviations cannot be achieved on the basis of neural feedback. In other words, the contr...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： van Soest AJ,Bobbert MF

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vision typically has better spatial accuracy and precision than audition and as a result often captures auditory spatial perception when visual and auditory cues are presented together. One determinant of visual capture is the amount of spatial disparity between auditory and visual cues: when disparity is small, visua...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bosen AK,Fleming JT,Brown SE,Allen PD,O'Neill WE,Paige GD

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major goals in cellular neurobiology is the meaningful cell classification. However, in cell classification there are many unresolved issues that need to be addressed. Neuronal classification usually starts with grouping cells into classes according to their main morphological features. If one tries to test...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Ristanović D,Milošević NT,Marić DL

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two computer controlled experiments in an olfactory cross-modal matching task, using two-component odour mixtures matched against bar diagrams, were designed so that stimulus presentation was contingent upon the recent performance of the subject; stimuli that were relatively poorly (in experiment 1) or well (in experi...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gregson RA,Gates A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Texture gradients are systematic variations in projected surface texture. It is expected that image variables such as texture density or size carry information about the surface orientation and distance. This article reexamines the information content of texture gradients and reviews the relevant psychophysics. Slant ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Stevens KA

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of a healthy lateral eye of Limulus to constant, uniform and sufficiently intense light stimulation, consists of a sustained oscillatory discharge, all ommatidia firing synchronously in bursts, at intervals of about 0.2s (Barlow and Fraioli, 1978). This response has been analysed by a computer simulation,...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Barbi M,Ferdeghini EM

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Panoramic image differences can be used for view-based homing under natural outdoor conditions, because they increase smoothly with distance from a reference location (Zeil et al., J Opt Soc Am A 20(3):450-469, 2003). The particular shape, slope and depth of such image difference functions (IDFs) recorded at any one p...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Stürzl W,Zeil J

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method based on neural networks to cluster proteins into families is described. The network is trained with the Kohonen unsupervised learning algorithm, using matrix pattern representations of the protein sequences as inputs. The components (x, y) of these 20 x 20 matrix patterns are the normalized frequencies o...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Ferrán EA,Ferrara P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimation scheme is employed to identify the synaptic connectivity in neural networks. This new approach can substantially reduce the amount of data and the computational cost involved in the conventional correlation methods, and is suitable for both nonstationary and stationary neu...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Yang X,Shamma SA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown how field potentials due to neuronal membrane processes can be computed by means of a digital computer system. The essence of the method consists in evaluating a discrete expression for the field potential as a function of membrane potentials. This expression is considered as a three-dimensional convolutio...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： van Rotterdam A

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a model for the circadian temporization system of mammals which associates the synchronization dynamics of coupling oscillators to a set of equations able to reproduce the synaptic characteristics of somatodendritic membrane of neurons. The circadian timing system is organized in a way to receive i...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Cardoso FR,de Oliveira Cruz FA,Silva D,Cortez CM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hodgkin-Huxley equations with a slight modification are investigated, in which the inactivation process (h) of sodium channels or the activation process of potassium channels (n) is slowed down. We show that the equations produce a variety of action potential waveforms ranging from a plateau potential, such as in ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Doi S,Nabetani S,Kumagai S

更新日期：2001-07-01 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

abstract：:An intracellular recording made from the retinal luminosity horizontal cell (LHC) demonstrated that repetitive red flashes enhanced the cell's responsiveness to red stimulus and depressed its responsiveness to green stimulus and that repetitive green flashes suppressed the cell's red response but produced little chang...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hu JF,Liu Y,Liang PJ

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchronization of the oscillatory discharge of cortical neurons could be a part of the mechanism that is involved in cortical information processing. On the assumption that the basic functional unit is the column composed of local excitatory and inhibitory cells and generating oscillatory neural activity, a network m...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Fukai T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method is presented for quantitative evaluation of single-sweep phase and amplitude electro-encephalogram (EEG) characteristics that is a more informative approach in comparison with conventional signal averaging. In the averaged potential, phase-locking and amplitude effects of the EEG response cannot be separa...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kolev V,Yordanova J

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical muscle model is presented that relates neural control signals linearly to muscle force without violating important known physiological constraints, such as the size-principle (Henneman and Mendell 1981) and non-linear twitch summation (Burke et al. 1976). This linearity implies that the neural control s...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Tax AA,Denier van der Gon JJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:Histograms of fast-phase intervals in human optokinetic and vestibular nystagmus were generated, and fitted to statistical distributions used in previous studies. The distributions did not depend on stimulation type (optokinetic or vestibular). An inverse Gaussian or a gamma distribution fitted the data better than di...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Trillenberg P,Zee DS,Shelhamer M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computational model of a learning system (LS) is described that acquires knowledge and skill necessary for optimal control of a multisegmental limb dynamics (controlled object or CO), starting from "knowing" only the dimensionality of the object's state space. It is based on an optimal control problem setup differen...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Shimansky YP,Kang T,He J

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:The effect of spatial frequency discrimination learning on spatial frequency detection tuning curves, obtained by a summation to threshold paradigm, has been investigated. Three human observers were exposed to a grating discrimination task for longer than two weeks, and their detection thresholds for compound Gabor gr...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Meinhardt G

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons receive a continual stream of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs. A conductance-based neuron model is used to investigate how the balanced component of this input modulates the amplitude of neuronal responses. The output spiking rate is well described by a formula involving three parameters: the mean mu...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Burkitt AN,Meffin H,Grayden DB

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much evidence suggests that the mammalian thalamus is not merely a set of nuclei relaying signals to the cerebral cortex, but is engaged in two-way interplay with it. Three important features constrain ideas about the nature of this interplay: (i) thalamic projection neurones lack local axon collaterals; (ii) most cor...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Miller R

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contrast threshold elevation effect has been measured for one dimensional (grating) and for two dimensional (spot) stimulus patterns. It has been shown previously (Burton and Ruddock, 1978) that such stimuli elicit, respectively, non-length-selective and length-selective adaptation effects. It is established that,...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Naghshineh S,Ruddock KH

更新日期：1978-11-10 00:00:00