Zero-crossing detectors in primary visual cortex?

abstract：:We propose a simple measure of neural sensitivity for characterizing stimulus coding. Sensitivity is defined as the fraction of neurons that show positive responses to n stimuli out of a total of N. To determine a positive response, we propose two methods: Fisherian statistical testing and a data-driven Bayesian appro...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Rodríguez FB,Huerta R

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Color vision in humans is independent over a wide range of the spectral composition of the illuminating light (Young 1807; Hering 1879). The retinex theory accounts for this color constancy by assuming that for each of the three waveband channels determined by the retinal cones a global lightness record of the scene i...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Wehrhahn C

更新日期：1987-01-01 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

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：:A signal-tuned approach has been recently introduced for modeling stimulus-dependent cortical receptive fields. The approach is based on signal-tuned Gabor functions, which are Gaussian-modulated sinusoids whose parameters are obtained from a "tuning" signal. Given a stimulus to a cell, it is taken as the tuning signa...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Torreão JR

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high speed of saccades means that they cannot be guided by visual feedback, so that any saccadic control system must know in advance the correct output signals to fixate a particular retinal position. To investigate neural-net architectures for learning this inverse-kinematics problem we simulated a 4 deg-of-freed...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Dean P,Mayhew JE,Thacker N,Langdon PM

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：: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：: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：:A mathematical model of the central neural mechanisms of respiratory rhythm generation is developed. This model assumes that the respiratory cycle consists of three phases: inspiration, post-inspiration, and expiration. Five respiratory neuronal groups are included: inspiratory, late-inspiratory, post-inspiratory, exp...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Botros SM,Bruce EN

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is concerned with synaptic reorganization in local neuronal networks. Within networks of 30 neurons, an initial disequilibrium in connectivity has to be compensated by reorganization of synapses. Such plasticity is not a genetically determined process, but depends on results of neuronal interaction. Neurobi...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Dammasch IE,Wagner GP,Wolff JR

更新日期：1988-01-01 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

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：:Trajectories in human aimed movements are inherently variable. Using the concept of positional variance profiles, such trajectories are shown to be decomposable into two phases: In a first phase, the variance of the limb position over many trajectories increases rapidly; in a second phase, it then decreases steadily. ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gori J,Rioul O

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to develop neurobiologically plausible models to account for the response properties of several types of cochlear nucleus neurons. Three cell types--the bushy cells, stellate cells, and fusiform cells--were selected because useful data from intracellular recordings were available for thes...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Arle JE,Kim DO

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:Between the extreme views concerning ontogenesis (genetic vs. environmental determination), we use a moderate approach: a somehow pre-established neuronal model network reacts to activity deviations (reflecting input to be compensated), and stabilizes itself during a complex feed-back process. Morphogenesis is based o...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Dammasch IE,Wagner GP,Wolff JR

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:A nonstationary signal analysis technique is introduced, which regards an oscillatory physiological signal as a sum of its fragments, presented in the form of a fragmentary decomposition (FD). The virtue of FD is that it is free of the necessity to choose a priori the basis functions intended for signal analysis or sy...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Melkonian D,Blumenthal T,Gordon E

更新日期：1999-11-01 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：:ICE stands for internally coupled ears. More than half of the terrestrial vertebrates, such as frogs, lizards, and birds, as well as many insects, are equipped with ICE that utilize an air-filled cavity connecting the two eardrums. Its effect is pronounced and twofold. On the basis of a solid experimental and mathemat...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： van Hemmen JL,Christensen-Dalsgaard J,Carr CE,Narins PM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomization method is developed for the calculation of covariation between multiple variables that are linked nonlinearly to a dependent variable. Covariation is a phenomenon often invoked in the study of movement coordination to capture the fact that in coordinated movement the outcome shows greater than expected...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Müller H,Sternad D

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of small radially symmetric targets was studied using a subthreshold summation paradigm. Small disc and disc-like patterns with diameters up to 0.60 were used for superposition on Bessel functions of zero order, subthreshold contrast and various spatial frequencies. Contrast interrelation functions prove...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mortensen U,Meinhardt G

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under a 90 degrees rotation of motor space relative to visual space, human two-dimensional aiming movements frequently take the form of smooth arcs such as spirals and semi-circles. A time-independent differential equation explains this tendency in terms of a rotation-induced vector field made up, at each point in the...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Cunningham HA,Vardi I

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:In studies of human balance, it is common to fit stimulus-response data by tuning the time-delay and gain parameters of a simple delayed feedback model. Many interpret this fitted model, a simple delayed feedback model, as evidence that predictive processes are not required to explain existing data on standing balance...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gawthrop P,Loram I,Lakie M

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a mathematical model for the learning of accurate human arm movements. Its main features are that the movement is the superposition of smooth submovements, the intrinsic deviation of arm movements is considered, visual and kinesthetic feed-back are integrated in the motion control, and the movement...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Burdet E,Milner TE

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we present a systematic method for generating simulations of nonstationary EEG. Such simulations are needed, for example, in the evaluation of tracking algorithms. First a state evolution process is simulated. The states are initially represented as segments of stationary autoregressive processes which a...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kaipio JP,Karjalainen PA

更新日期：1997-05-01 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：:In internally coupled ears (ICE), the displacement of one eardrum creates pressure waves that propagate through air-filled passages in the skull, causing a displacement of the opposing eardrum and vice versa. In this review, a thorough mathematical analysis of the membranes, passages, and propagating pressure waves re...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Vedurmudi AP,Young BA,van Hemmen JL

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00