A posteriori time-varying filtering of averaged evoked potentials. II. Mathematical and computational aspects.

abstract：:Sixty subjects were tested to assign orientation to ten dot patterns differing in their overall form and the number of dots in the pattern. The patterns were presented in four different positions in the visual field and their orientation was estimated in two ways. It was demonstrated that the assignment of orientation...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Yakimoff N

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：:One possible strategy for the solution of the correspondence problem of stereo matching is the coarse-to-fine mechanism: The matching process starts with a lowpass-filtered version of the stereogram where only a few, high-contrast image features can be extracted and the probability of false matches is therefore low. I...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mallot HA,Gillner S,Arndt PA

更新日期：1996-02-01 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

abstract：:Vision typically has better spatial accuracy and precision than audition and as a result often captures auditory spatial perception when visual and auditory cues are presented together. One determinant of visual capture is the amount of spatial disparity between auditory and visual cues: when disparity is small, visua...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bosen AK,Fleming JT,Brown SE,Allen PD,O'Neill WE,Paige GD

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：: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：: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：:We report on the ability of human observers in judging their direction of translation from sparse, moving random dot patterns for varying extents of 3--D rotation. The observers have to discriminate possible axes of translation with angular separations of 2.5 deg or 5 deg. The field of view is either 20 X 20 deg or 10...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Rieger JH,Toet L

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a function-oriented model of the visual cortex. The model addresses an essential task of the visual system: to detect and represent objects. These are defined as sets, which reappear in the input with invariant inner relations. A network, incorporating an idealized description of anatomical and physiologica...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Neven H,Aertsen A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A receptive field constitutes a region in the visual field where a visual cell or a visual operator responds to visual stimuli. This paper presents a theory for what types of receptive field profiles can be regarded as natural for an idealized vision system, given a set of structural requirements on the first stages o...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lindeberg T

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II units in the dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN) are characterized by vigorous but nonmonotonic responses to best frequency tones as a function of sound pressure level, and relatively weak responses to noise. A model of DCN neural circuitry was used to explore two hypothetical mechanisms by which neurons may be endo...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hancock KE,Davis KA,Voigt HF

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The assessment of the variability of neuronal spike timing is fundamental to gain understanding of latency coding. Based on recent mathematical results, we investigate theoretically the impact of channel noise on latency variability. For large numbers of ion channels, we derive the asymptotic distribution of latency, ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Wainrib G,Thieullen M,Pakdaman K

更新日期：2010-07-01 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 many applications of signal processing, especially in communications and biomedicine, preprocessing is necessary to remove noise from data recorded by multiple sensors. Typically, each sensor or electrode measures the noisy mixture of original source signals. In this paper a noise reduction technique using independ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Vorobyov S,Cichocki A

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：:Parameters in diffusion neuronal models are divided into two groups; intrinsic and input parameters. Intrinsic parameters are related to the properties of the neuronal membrane and are assumed to be known throughout the paper. Input parameters characterize processes generated outside the neuron and methods for their e...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lansky P,Ditlevsen S

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pacemaker cell pair model and the dynamic interaction between the two pacemaker cells is described in this paper. It is an extension of our single pacemaker cell model, in which we studied its response to repetitive external depolarization stimulations. This model is a simple model based on the two most important fu...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Abramovich-Sivan S,Akselrod S

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spinal neural networks of larval zebrafish (Danio rerio) generate a variety of movements such as escape, struggling, and swimming. Various mechanisms at the neural and network levels have been proposed to account for switches between these behaviors. However, there are currently no detailed demonstrations of such ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kuo PD,Eliasmith C

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:Movement of multiple segment limbs requires generation of appropriate joint torques which include terms arising from dynamic interactions among the moving segments as well as from such external forces as gravity. The interaction torques, arising from inertial, centripetal, and Coriolis forces, are not present for sing...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hollerbach MJ,Flash T

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：:The action potentials (impulses) produced by pairs of neighboring retinal ganglion cells often show a tendency either to fire in close temporal synchrony or to avoid temporal synchrony. This cross-correlation (a rate of "coincidences" that differs from that expected by chance) has been exploited as a window into retin...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Levine MW

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of a healthy lateral eye of Limulus to constant, uniform and sufficiently intense light stimulation, consists of a sustained oscillatory discharge, all ommatidia firing synchronously in bursts, at intervals of about 0.2s (Barlow and Fraioli, 1978). This response has been analysed by a computer simulation,...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Barbi M,Ferdeghini EM

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental problem in neuroscience, to which Prof. Segundo has made seminal contributions, is to understand how action potentials represent events in the external world. The aim of this paper is to review the issue of neural coding in the context of the rodent whiskers, an increasingly popular model system. Key iss...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Petersen RS,Panzeri S,Maravall M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With relative phase as a collective variable or order parameter, phase attractive dynamics can capture the temporally coherent behavior of a large number of different experimental systems. We present results from multifrequency coordination experiments in humans showing: a) that phase attraction persists especially fo...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： deGuzman GC,Kelso JA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00