Textural segmentation, second-order statistics, and textural elements.

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：:Synaptic plasticity is considered to be the biological substrate of learning and memory. In this document we review phenomenological models of short-term and long-term synaptic plasticity, in particular spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP). The aim of the document is to provide a framework for classifying and eval...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Morrison A,Diesmann M,Gerstner W

更新日期：2008-06-01 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 study weakly connected networks of neural oscillators near multiple Andronov-Hopf bifurcation points. We analyze relationships between synaptic organizations (anatomy) of the networks and their dynamical properties (function). Our principal assumptions are: (1) Each neural oscillator comprises two populations of ne...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hoppensteadt FC,Izhikevich EM

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some interesting properties on pattern separation have been shown through researches by neural models of cerebellar cortex. It seems to us that those results are a part of the properties of pattern separation. A two layer random nerve net with inhibitory connections is given as a model of the cerebellar cortex. The mo...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Torioka T

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a procedure that optimally adjusts specified parameters of a mathematical model to describe a set of measured data. The technique integrates a dynamic systems-simulation language with a robust algorithm for nonlinear parameter estimation, and it can be implemented on a microcomputer. Sensitivity functions a...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Huebner WP,Saidel GM,Leigh RJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:We consider the description of a nonlinear stochastic transduction in terms of its input/output distribution. We construct a sequence of approximating maximum-entropy estimates from a finite set of input/output observations. This procedure extends the Wiener theory to the analysis of nonlinear stochastic transducers a...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Victor JD,Johannesma P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a novel optimal control algorithm to change the phase of an oscillator using a minimum energy input, which also minimizes the oscillator's transversal distance to the uncontrolled periodic orbit. Our algorithm uses a two-dimensional reduction technique based on both isochrons and isostables. We develop a no...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Monga B,Moehlis J

更新日期：2019-04-01 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

abstract：:In the present work a linear model for a pair of antagonistic muscles is analysed. Each constituent muscle in this model is identical to ones considered previously (Stein and Oğuztöreli, 1976). Analytical properties of the antagonistic muscles and dynamics of the system are described and some numerical results are dis...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Oğuztöreli MN,Stein RB

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Simulation results of bistable perception due to ambiguous visual stimuli are presented which are obtained with a behavioral nonlinear dynamics model using perception-attention-memory coupling. This model provides an explanation of recent experimental results of Gao et al. (Cogn Process 7:105-112, 2006a) and it suppor...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Fürstenau N

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose an approach for desynchronization in an ensemble of globally coupled neural oscillators. The impact of washout filter aided mean field feedback on population synchronization process is investigated. By blocking the Hopf bifurcation of the mean field, the controller desynchronizes the ensemble. The technique...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Luo M,Wu Y,Peng J

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:It is well known that the human postural control system responds to motion of the visual scene, but the implicit assumptions it makes about the visual environment and what quantities, if any, it estimates about the visual environment are unknown. This study compares the behavior of four models of the human postural co...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Carver S,Kiemel T,van der Kooij H,Jeka JJ

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we perform a bifurcation analysis for a discrete time dynamical system, describing the behavior of a virtual fly, developed by Böddeker and Egelhaaf (2003). Like real blowflies, the virtual counterparts exhibit a dichotomous behavior: they catch small targets but follow big objects at a constant distance...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hüls T

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a general neural model for supervised learning of pattern categories which can resolve pattern classes separated by nonlinear, essentially arbitrary boundaries. The concept of a pattern class develops from storing in memory a limited number of class elements (prototypes). Associated with each prototype is a...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Reilly DL,Cooper LN,Elbaum C

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to obtain information on the axonal diameters of cortico-cortical fibres in the human brain, connecting distant regions of the same hemisphere via the white matter. Samples for electron microscopy were taken from the region of the superior longitudinal fascicle and from the transitional white...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Liewald D,Miller R,Logothetis N,Wagner HJ,Schüz A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We employ an optimal solution to both the "shape from motion problem" and the related problem of the estimation of self-movement on a purely optical basis to deduce practical rules of thumb for the limits of the optic flow information content in the presence of perturbation of the motion parallax field. The results ar...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Koenderink JJ,van Doorn AJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：: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 introduces a theoretical frame-work for characterizing and classifying simple parallel algorithms and systems with many inputs, for example an array of photoreceptors. The polynomial representation (Taylor series development) of a large class of operators is introduced and its range of validity discussed. T...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Poggio T,Reichardt W

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation patterns underlying the electrical activity of the heart during atrial fibrillation (AF) are not entirely random. The aim of this study was to assess the local organization of the activation processes during AF by estimating the non-linear coupling between activation sequences (ASs) in two atrial sites....

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Censi F,Barbaro V,Bartolini P,Calcagnini G,Michelucci A,Cerutti S

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous work it has been shown in posture experiments of the human arm that reflexive dynamics were substantial for narrow-band stochastic force disturbances. The estimated reflex gains varied substantially with the frequency content of the disturbances. The present study analyses a simplified linear model of the ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： de Vlugt E,van der Helm FC,Schouten AC,Brouwn GG

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a biologically oriented model that accounts for left-right discrimination in the cockroach's escape behavior. The model includes the main groups of neurons found to be involved in the escape response. Each one of the included neurons is described by the actual processes taking place in an individual neuron ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Ezrachi EA,Levi R,Camhi JM,Parnas H

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00