A stochastic model of retinotopy: a self organizing process.

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：:Insects can remember and return to a place of interest using the surrounding visual cues. In previous experiments, we showed that crickets could home to an invisible cool spot in a hot environment. They did so most effectively with a natural scene surround, though they were also able to home with distinct landmarks or...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mangan M,Webb B

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms that control the limbs position during rhythmic voluntary oscillations were investigated in ten subjects, who were asked to synchronise the lower peak of their hand or foot rhythmic oscillations to a metronome beat. The efficacy of the "position control" was estimated by measuring the degree of synchron...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Esposti R,Cavallari P,Baldissera F

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system of coupled bistable Hopf oscillators with an external periodic input source was used to model the ability of interacting neural populations to synchronize and desynchronize in response to variations of the input signal. We propose that, in biological systems, the settings of internal and external coupling str...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Schwarz J,Sieck A,Dangelmayr G,Stevens A

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：: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：:A neural model is proposed for the spatiotemporal properties of simple cells in the visual cortex. In the model, several cortical cells are arranged on a ring, with mutual excitatory or inhibitory connections. The cells also receive excitatory inputs either from lagged and nonlagged cells of the lateral geniculate nuc...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hamada T,Yamashima M,Kato K

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons transmit information as action potentials or spikes. Due to the inherent randomness of the inter-spike intervals (ISIs), probabilistic models are often used for their description. Cumulative damage (CD) distributions are a family of probabilistic models that has been widely considered for describing time-relat...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Leiva V,Tejo M,Guiraud P,Schmachtenberg O,Orio P,Marmolejo-Ramos F

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of power in different frequency bands of the electroencephalogram (EEG) carries information about the behavioral state of a subject. Hence, neurologists treating epileptic patients monitor the temporal evolution of the different bands. We propose a covariance-based method to detect and characterize epilepti...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Maidana Capitán M,Cámpora N,Sigvard CS,Kochen S,Samengo I

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tongue movements during speech production have been investigated by means of a simple yet realistic biomechanical model, based on a finite elements modeling of soft tissues, in the framework of the equilibrium point hypothesis (lambda-model) of motor control. In particular, the model has been applied to the estimation...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Sanguineti V,Laboissière R,Payan Y

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systems that generate spike outputs in response to continuous inputs abound in neurophysiology. The study of their dynamics with the use of systems analysis methods has been complicated by the difference in modality of the input and output signals. When the problem is placed in the framework of Wiener's theory in disc...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Marmarelis VZ,Citron MC,Vivo CP

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How do biological agents plan and organise a smooth accurate path to shift from one smooth mode of behaviour to another as part of graceful movement that is both plastic and controlled? This paper addresses the question in conducting a novel shape analysis of approach and adjustment phases in rapid voluntary target ai...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Weir MK,Wale AP

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:Compared to all other hearing animals, insects are the smallest ones, both in absolute terms and in relation to the wavelength of most biologically relevant sounds. The ears of insects can be located at almost any possible body part, such as wings, legs, mouthparts, thorax or abdomen. The interaural distances are gene...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Römer H,Schmidt AK

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multisegment, multijoint model of a falling animal is presented to examine the effectiveness of a two-stage control scheme in a zero-momentum self-righting maneuver. The model contains a much larger number of degrees of freedom than is required to execute a self-righting maneuver and is thus capable of providing mul...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Arabyan A,Tsai D

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Akinematical model for excitable wave propagation is analyzed to describe the dynamics of a typical neurological symptom of migraine. The kinematical model equation is solved analytically for a linear dependency between front curvature and velocity. The resulting wave starts from an initial excitation and moves in the...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Dahlem MA,Müller SC

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) determines the evolution of the synaptic weights according to their pre- and post-synaptic activity, which in turn changes the neuronal activity. In this paper, we extend previous studies of input selectivity induced by (STDP) for single neurons to the biologically interesting ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

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

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:The availability of a simple-to-use, automatic measurement system for noninvasive flow estimation is imperative, given the clinical demand for an acceptable noninvasive procedure rather than the standard invasive procedure of thermodilution. A method for calculating cardiac output from noninvasively derived pressure p...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Redling JD,Akay M

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a controls systems model of horizontal-plane head movements during perturbations of the trunk, which for the first time interfaces a model of the human head with neural feedback controllers representing the vestibulocollic (VCR) and the cervicocollic (CCR) reflexes. This model is homeomorphic such that mode...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Peng GC,Hain TC,Peterson BW

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：:Using a modified version of a phenomenological model for the dynamics of synaptic plasticity, we examine some recent experiments of Wu et al. [(2001) J Physiol 533:745-755]. We show that the model is quantitatively consistent with their experimental protocols producing long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depres...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Whitehead A,Rabinovich MI,Huerta R,Zhigulin VP,Abarbanel HD

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motion repulsion is the perceived enlargement of the angle between the directions of motion of two transparently moving patterns. An explanation of this illusion has long been sought for in the neural circuitry of the brain. We show that motion repulsion already arises from the statistical properties of the motion tra...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mahani AS,Carlsson AE,Wessel R

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a model for the first stage of the cortical transformation of the visual image based on the principle that the cortex encodes the information with the minimum number of channels mathematically needed. We restrict our model to be consistent with the data on size adaptations, the known relationships of acuity...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Sakitt B,Barlow HB

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the dynamic effects of external forces on the displacement of the otolith membrane and subsequent neuronal responses of otoliths, we performed numerical analyses of otolith membrane displacements. In these studies we included the full geometry of the human otolith maculae, including their 3D curvature. ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Jaeger R,Haslwanter T

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal information processing was studied in humans attempting to tap a key in synchrony with a metronome whose base period was subjected to subliminal random changes. Statistical measures of the sequential timing of metronome and key-tap events were compared with similar time series generated by computer-simulated ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hary D,Moore GP

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The trace version of classical conditioning is used as a prototypical hippocampal-dependent task to study the recoding sequence prediction theory of hippocampal function. This theory conjectures that the hippocampus is a random recoder of sequences and that, once formed, the neuronal codes are suitable for prediction....

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Levy WB,Sanyal A,Rodriguez P,Sullivan DW,Wu XB

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current research, the muscle equivalent linear damping coefficient which is introduced as the force-velocity relation in a muscle model and the corresponding time constant are investigated. In order to reach this goal, a 1D skeletal muscle model was used. Two characterizations of this model using a linear force...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Ovesy M,Nazari MA,Mahdavian M

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idea that a sparse representation is the computational principle of visual systems has been supported by Olshausen and Field [Nature (1996) 381: 607-609] and many other studies. On the other hand neurons in the inferotemporal cortex respond to moderately complex features called icon alphabets, and such neurons res...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hashimoto W,Kurata K

更新日期：2000-08-01 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