Valentino Braitenberg: From neuroanatomy to behavior and back.

abstract：:A mathematical model for describing dynamic phenomena in the olfactory bulb is presented. The nature of attractors and the bifurcation sequences in terms of the lateral connection strength in the mitral layer are studied numerically. Chaotic activity has only been found in the case of strong excitatory coupling. Synap...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Erdi P,Gröbler T,Barna G,Kaski K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spikes in the membrane potential of neurons comprise the currency of information processing in the brain. The ability of neurons to convert any information present across their multiple inputs into a significant modification to the pattern of their emitted spikes depends on the rate at which they emit spikes. If the m...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Miller P,Cannon J

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes current views on motor and sensory control of extraocular muscles (EOMs) based on anatomical data. The special morphology of EOMs, including their motor innervation, is described in comparison to classical skeletal limb and trunk muscles. The presence of proprioceptive organs is reviewed with em...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lienbacher K,Horn AK

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the seminal works of Bernstein (The coordination and regulation of movements. Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1967) several authors have supported the idea that, to produce a goal-oriented movement in general, and a movement of the organs responsible for the production of speech sounds in particular, individuals activat...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lancia L,Rosenbaum B

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A linear analogue network model is proposed to describe the neuronal circuit of the outer retina consisting of cones, horizontal cells, and bipolar cells. The model reflects previous physiological findings on the spatial response properties of these neurons to dim illumination and is expressed by physiological mechani...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Yagi T,Ohshima S,Funahashi Y

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Involuntary eye movements were recorded during threshold detection tasks under various experimental conditions. The data were analyzed for interdependencies between stimulus parameters, detection performance, and oculomotor behaviour. The data demonstrate that under certain conditions, saccadic parameters are adaptive...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Deubel H,Elsner T

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical circuits have been proposed to encode information by forming stable spatially structured attractors. Experimentally in the primary somatosensory cortex of the monkey, temporally invariant stimuli lead to spatially structured activity patterns. The purpose of this work is to study a recurrent cortical neural n...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gutkin BS,Smith CE

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable signal transmission is crucial for information processing by the brain. Synfire-chains, defined as feed-forward networks of spiking neurons, are a well-studied class of circuit structure that can propagate a packet of single spikes while maintaining a fixed packet profile. Here, we studied the stable propagatio...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Teramae JN,Fukai T

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to locomote is a defining characteristic of all animals. Yet, all but the most trivial forms of navigation are poorly understood. Here we report and discuss the analytical results of an in-depth study of a simple navigation problem. In principle, there are two strategies for navigating a straight course. O...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Cheung A,Zhang S,Stricker C,Srinivasan MV

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For over 75 years it has been clear that the number of spikes in a neural response is an important part of the neuronal code. Starting as early as the 1950's with MacKay and McCullough, there has been speculation over whether each spike and its exact time of occurrence carry information. Although it is obvious that th...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Richmond BJ

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical control of respiration provides for the maintenance of energy and substance equilibrium primarily and for the homoeostatic stability of the chemical blood parameters secondarily. Based on results having been obtained from an appropriate state space model some findings on respiration can be reproduced. In ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Balla K

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method that enables measurement of the degree of coupling between two signals is presented. The method is based on the definition of an uncoupling function calculating, by means of entropy rates, the minimum amount of independent information (i.e. the information carried by one signal which cannot be derived from th...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Porta A,Baselli G,Lombardi F,Montano N,Malliani A,Cerutti S

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast as possible (time optimal) single joint movements throughout the body are characterized by the triphasic (3 pulse) pattern of activation in the agonist and antagonist muscles. Simulation studies using a sixth order, non-linear model were undertaken to determine the relationship between time optimal movement and t...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hannaford B,Stark L

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Results from the companion paper were incorporated into a physiologically realistic computer model of the three principal cell types (PD/AB, LP, PY) of the pyloric network in the stomatogastric ganglion. Parameters for the model were mostly calculated (sometimes estimated) from experimental data rather than fitting...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hartline DK

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a new multilayered neural network model which has the ability of rapid self-organization. This model is a modified version of the cognitron (Fukushima, 1975). It has modifiable inhibitory feedback connections, as well as conventional modifiable excitatory feedforward connections, between the cells of adjoin...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Miyake S,Fukushima K

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification and analysis of directed influences in multivariate systems is an important problem in many scientific areas. Recent studies in neuroscience have provided measures to determine the network structure of the process and to quantify the total effect in terms of energy transfer. These measures are based on ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gigi S,Tangirala AK

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the ability of human observers in judging their direction of translation from sparse, moving random dot patterns for varying extents of 3--D rotation. The observers have to discriminate possible axes of translation with angular separations of 2.5 deg or 5 deg. The field of view is either 20 X 20 deg or 10...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Rieger JH,Toet L

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:Taste buds endure extreme changes in temperature, pH, osmolarity, so on. Even though taste bud cells are replaced in a short span, they contribute to consistent taste reception. Each taste bud consists of about 50 cells whose networks are assumed to process taste information, at least preliminarily. In this article, w...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Tateno K,Igarashi J,Ohtubo Y,Nakada K,Miki T,Yoshii K

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stoichiometric and kinetic details of transmitter-receptor interaction (the number of conformations and the rate constants of conformation changes( in synaptic transmission have been investigated analyzing postsynaptic membrane noises by the aid of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem of stochastic chemical kinetic...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Erdi P,Ropolyi L

更新日期：1979-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Many tasks require the arm to move from its initial position to a specified target position, but leave us free to choose the trajectory between them. This paper presents and tests the hypothesis that trajectories are chosen to minimize metabolic energy costs. Costs are calculated for the range of possible trajectories...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Alexander RM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on a complexity analysis of mutual information transmission of EEG developed by us [Xu J, Liu Z, Liu R, Yang Q (1997) Physica D 106: 363-374], dynamic processes of the complexity of mutual information transmission in human brains were studied. To diminish possible problems due to coarse graining preprocessing, s...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Chen F,Xu J,Gu F,Yu X,Meng X,Qiu Z

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic response of the human ankle joint to a bandlimited random torque perturbation superimposed on a constant bias torque is observed in normal human subjects. The applied torque input, the joint angular rotation output, and the electromyographic activity using surface electrodes from the extensor and the flexo...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Agarwal GC,Goodarzi SM,O'Neill WD,Gottlieb GL

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty subjects were tested to assign orientation to ten dot patterns differing in their overall form and the number of dots in the pattern. The patterns were presented in four different positions in the visual field and their orientation was estimated in two ways. It was demonstrated that the assignment of orientation...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Yakimoff N

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vestibuloocular reflex and other oculomotor functions are subserved by populations of neurons operating in parallel. This distributed aspect of the system's organization has been largely ignored in previous block diagram models. Neurons that transmit oculomotor signals, such as those in the vestibular nucleus (VN)...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Anastasio TJ,Robinson DA

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:Motion control of musculoskeletal systems for functional electrical stimulation (FES) is a challenging problem due to the inherent complexity of the systems. These include being highly nonlinear, strongly coupled, time-varying, time-delayed, and redundant. The redundancy in particular makes it difficult to find an inv...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Park H,Durand DM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The information transmission properties of single, de-efferented primary muscle-spindle afferents from the hind limb of the cat were investigated. The gastrocnemius medialis muscle was stretched randomly while recording spike trains from several muscle-spindle afferents in the dorsal root. Two classes of input stimuli...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Tock Y,Ljubisavljevic M,Thunberg J,Windhorst U,Inbar GF,Johansson H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In neuronal networks, the changes of synaptic strength (or weight) performed by spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) are hypothesized to give rise to functional network structure. This article investigates how this phenomenon occurs for the excitatory recurrent connections of a network with fixed input weights tha...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gilson M,Burkitt AN,Grayden DB,Thomas DA,van Hemmen JL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The correspondence between afferent discharges and sinusoidal length modulations (0.2--10 cps, under 10% of the natural length variations) was studied in isolated fast-adapting stretch receptor organs (FAO) of crayfish, largely using average displays of rate vs. length (or derivatives) along the cycle. Rate modulation...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Martínez OD,Kohn AF,Segundo JP

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00