A model for light adaptation: producing Weber's law with bleaching-type kinetics.

abstract：:Saccadic averaging is the phenomenon that two simultaneously presented retinal inputs result in a saccade with an endpoint located on an intermediate position between the two stimuli. Recordings from neurons in the deeper layers of the superior colliculus have revealed neural correlates of saccade averaging, indicatin...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Krommenhoek KP,Wiegerinck WA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the aspects involved in modelling a multi-robot system from a human motor control perspective. The human motor control system has a hierarchical and decentralised structure, and building a control system for a multi-robot system that attains human features would require a decomposable model. Decom...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kambhampati C,Rajasekharan S

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:Two computer controlled experiments in an olfactory cross-modal matching task, using two-component odour mixtures matched against bar diagrams, were designed so that stimulus presentation was contingent upon the recent performance of the subject; stimuli that were relatively poorly (in experiment 1) or well (in experi...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gregson RA,Gates A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we present a continuous attractor network model that we hypothesize will give some suggestion of the mechanisms underlying several neural processes such as velocity tuning to visual stimulus, sensory discrimination, sensorimotor transformations, motor control, motor imagery, and imitation. All of these ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Sauser EL,Billard AG

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:Learning to make reaching movements in force fields was used as a paradigm to explore the system architecture of the biological adaptive controller. We compared the performance of a number of candidate control systems that acted on a model of the neuromuscular system of the human arm and asked how well the dynamics of...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bhushan N,Shadmehr R

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bursting excitable cells such as pancreatic beta-cells and molluscan Aplysia neuron cells, intracellular Ca2+ ion plays a central role in various cellular functions. To understand the role of [Ca2+]i (the intracellular Ca2+ concentration) in electrical bursting, we formulate a mathematical model which contains a fe...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Chay TR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Goal directed movements, executed by means of a manipulator with various dynamics, were investigated in order to establish to what extent the loading affects the executed movement. The desired movement concept, together with a describing function model for goal directed movements, was applied to parameterize the movem...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Ruitenbeek JC

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotations of the eye are generated by the torques that the eye muscles apply to the eye. The relationship between eye orientation and the direction of the torques generated by the extraocular muscles is therefore central to any understanding of the control of three-dimensional eye movements of any type. We review the ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Koene AR,Erkelens CJ

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimating the behavior of a network of neurons requires accurate models of the individual neurons along with accurate characterizations of the connections among them. Whereas for a single cell, measurements of the intracellular voltage are technically feasible and sufficient to characterize a useful model of its beha...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Knowlton C,Meliza CD,Margoliash D,Abarbanel HD

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal output properties for input stimuli that evoke a deterministic response can be efficiently described by the interspike-interval function (Awiszus 1988a). It is shown in this paper that there are stimuli for which both the Hodgkin-Huxley (HH-) model of an action potential encoding membrane (Hodgkin and Huxley ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Awiszus F

更新日期：1989-01-01 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 application of an electronic real time emulator for biology-inspired pulse processing neural networks (BPN) to recognition and temporal tracking of discrete impulse patterns via delay adaptation is demonstrated. The electronic emulation includes biologically plausible features, such as asynchronous impulses, membr...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Napp-Zinn H,Jansen M,Eckmiller R

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Illumination allows solid object perception to be obtained and depicted by a shading pattern produced by lighting. The shading cue, as one of solid perception cues (Gibson 1979), was investigated in regard to a white corrugated wave shape, using computer graphic device: Tospix-2. The reason the corrugated wave was cho...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Nameda N

更新日期：1988-01-01 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 response of a population of neurons to time-varying synaptic inputs can show a rich phenomenology, hardly predictable from the dynamical properties of the membrane's inherent time constants. For example, a network of neurons in a state of spontaneous activity can respond significantly more rapidly than each single...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Giugliano M,La Camera G,Fusi S,Senn W

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:We propose a mathematical model of the human hypothalamus-anterior pituitary-thyroid system regulating basal metabolism, and practice computer simulation concerning primary thyropathy such as Graves' disease, hypothyroidism, T4-toxicosis and T3-toxicosis by use of this model. In order to throw light on properties of t...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hatakeyama T,Yagi H

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:Stochastic resonance is demonstrated in a simple energy detector model, as a non-monotonic relationship between signal-to-noise ratio and detection of a sinusoid signal in bandpass-limited Gaussian noise. The behaviour of the model detecting signals of various intensities and signal-to-noise ratios was investigated. S...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Tougaard J

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beck (1972, 1973) hypothesized that textural segmentation occurs strongly on the basis of simple properties such as brightness, color, size, and the slopes of contours and lines of the elemental descriptors of a texture or textural elements. The experiment reported supports the hypothesis that specific stimulus featur...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Beck J

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have attempted to reconcile the different patterns of distribution of interspike intervals that are found in motoneurones made to discharge by intracellular injection of constant current in reduced animal preparations and by voluntary control in human subjects. We recorded long spike trains from single motor units ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Poliakov AV,Miles TS,Nordstrom MA

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:The concerted and self-organizing behavior of spinal cord segments in generating locomotor patterns is modulated by afferent sensory information and controlled by descending pathways from the brainstem, cerebellum, or cortex. The purpose of this study was to define a minimal set of parameters that could control a simi...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kaske A,Winberg G,Cöster J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of a pair of cortical ocular dominance columns determines a basic anatomical module of V-1 which Hubel and Wiesel have termed the hypercolumn. Does this correspond to a basic functional, or psychophysically measurable, module as well? This is the basic question addressed in the present paper. Since the ocular...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Yeshurun Y,Schwartz EL

更新日期：1999-02-01 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：: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：: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：:Directional and orientational components usually coexist and are mixed in the cell's overall responses when moving optical stimuli are used to study the response characteristics of visual neurons. While these two properties were quantified with all the previous methods for data analysis, their effects could not be eff...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Li B,Wang Y,Diao Y

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00