A stochastic theory of phase transitions in human hand movement.

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：:The Craik-O'Brien illusion was measured for patterns of negative and positive contrast by a compensation method. The illusion of negative contrast (black teeth on uniform field) was stronger than that of positive one (white teeth). The amount of compensation increased linearly with increasing tooth width, but was nonl...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hamada J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously proposed that electrocortical waves are linear waves, subject to regulation by mesotelencephalic dopaminergic neurones. As a further means to test this theory, selective unilateral lesions of varying extent were made in the nucleii of origin of the dopaminergic mesotelencephalic tract. Changes in th...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Wright JJ,Kydd RR,Lees GJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent results demonstrate techniques for fully quantitative, statistical inference of the dynamics of individual neurons under the Hodgkin-Huxley framework of voltage-gated conductances. Using a variational approximation, this approach has been successfully applied to simulated data from model neurons. Here, we use t...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Meliza CD,Kostuk M,Huang H,Nogaret A,Margoliash D,Abarbanel HD

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:A model calculation is presented simulating the coordinated interaction between the walking legs of a multi-legged animal. The neural network consists of separate modules with oscillatory capabilities. It has the ability to adjust the necessary parameters for producing a coordinated interaction between the modules in ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Müller-Wilm U

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An approach to solving nonlinear control problems is illustrated by means of a layered associative network composed of adaptive elements capable of reinforcement learning. The first layer adaptively develops a representation in terms of which the second layer can solve the problem linearly. The adaptive elements compr...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Barto AG,Anderson CW,Sutton RS

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiplying memory span by mental speed, we obtain the information entropy of short-term memory capacity, which is rate-limiting for cognitive functions and corresponds with EEG power spectral density. The number of EEG harmonics (n = 1, 2,..., 9) is identical with memory span, and the eigenvalues of the EEG impulse r...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Weiss V

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding closed loop behavioral systems is a non-trivial problem, especially when they change during learning. Descriptions of closed loop systems in terms of information theory date back to the 1950s, however, there have been only a few attempts which take into account learning, mostly measuring information of i...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kulvicius T,Kolodziejski C,Tamosiunaite M,Porr B,Wörgötter F

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A visual model for object detection is proposed. In order to make the detection ability comparable with existing technical methods for object detection, an evolution equation of neurons in the model is derived from the computational principle of active contours. The hierarchical structure of the model emerges naturall...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Satoh S

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the field of motor control, there is no consensus on which kinematic and kinetic aspects of movements are planned or controlled. Perturbing goal-directed movements is a frequently used tool to answer this question. To be able to draw conclusions about motor control from kinematic responses to perturbations, a m...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Pinter IJ,van Soest AJ,Bobbert MF,Smeets JB

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the first part of lifting movements, the trunk movement is surprisingly resistant to perturbations. This study examined which factors contribute to this perturbation resistance of the trunk during lifting. Three possible mechanisms were studied: force-length-velocity characteristics of muscles, the momentum of the ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： van der Burg JC,Casius LJ,Kingma I,van Dieën JH,van Soest AJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：: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：:We analyzed cyclic enzyme systems, one of the best candidates for biochemical switching devices, especially focusing on their control mode against external perturbations. Since these systems have the reliability of ON-OFF types of operation (McCulloch-Pitts' neuronic equation), we shall present here the mechanical dif...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Okamoto M,Sakai T,Hayashi K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proved that a detection process may be accounted for by a simple two-state model consisting of a collection of linear analysers followed by a maximum-output decision rule provided that a set of all threshold stimuli is convex. A non-parametrical method to identify the analysers constituting such a model is...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Logvinenko AD

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the theory of random point processes, a method is presented whereby functional relationships between neurons can be detected and modeled. The method is based on a point process characterization involving stochastic intensities and an additive rate function model. Estimates are based on the maximum likelihood (ML...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Chornoboy ES,Schramm LP,Karr AF

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grating cells were discovered in the V1 and V2 areas of the monkey visual cortex by von der Heydt et al. (1992). These cells responded vigorously to grating patterns of appropriate orientation and periodicity. Computational models inspired by these findings were used as texture operator (Kruzinga and Petkov 1995, 1999...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lourens T,Barakova E,Okuno HG,Tsujino H

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:This report demonstrates the effectiveness of two processes in constructing simple feedforward networks which perform good transformations on their inputs. Good transformations are characterized by the minimization of two information measures: the information loss incurred with the transformation and the statistical d...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Adelsberger-Mangan DM,Levy WB

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：: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：:The behavior of the space-clamped Hodgkin-Huxley model has been studied using band-limited white noise (0-50 Hz) as the input membrane current and taking the output as a point process in time given by the peaks of the action potentials. The frequency response and coherence functions were measured by use of the Fourier...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： French AS

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:The evolutionary transition from water to land required new locomotor modes and corresponding adjustments of the spinal "central pattern generators" for locomotion. Salamanders resemble the first terrestrial tetrapods and represent a key animal for the study of these changes. Based on recent physiological data from sa...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bicanski A,Ryczko D,Cabelguen JM,Ijspeert AJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:This paper studies the performance of single-layered neural networks. This study begins with the performance of single-layered neural networks trained using the outer-product rule. The outer-product rule is a suboptimal learning scheme, resulting under certain assumptions from optimal least-squares training of single-...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Karayiannis NB,Venetsanopoulos AN

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:This paper concerns the processing of the outputs of the two opponent-color mechanisms in the human visual system. We present experimental evidence that opponent-color signals interact after joint modulation even though they are essentially independent under neutral steady adaptation and after exclusive modulation of ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Zaidi Q,Shapiro AG

更新日期：1993-01-01 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