A computer system for the analysis and synthesis of field potentials.

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：:The method of non-linear forecasting of time series was applied to different simulated signals and EEG in order to check its ability of distinguishing chaotic from noisy time series. The goodness of prediction was estimated, in terms of the correlation coefficient between forecasted and real time series, for non-linea...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Blinowska KJ,Malinowski M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual system is constantly confronted with the problem of integrating local signals into more global arrangements. This arises from the nature of early cell responses, whether they signal localized measures of luminance, motion, retinal position differences, or discontinuities. Consequently, from sparse, local me...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Neumann H,Pessoa L,Hansen T

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the mammalian memory system has both familiarity and recollection components. Recently, a high-capacity network to store familiarity has been proposed. Here we derive analytically the optimal learning rule for such a familiarity memory using a signal- to-noise ratio analysis. We find that in...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Greve A,Sterratt DC,Donaldson DI,Willshaw DJ,van Rossum MC

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:The concepts of pattern dynamics and their adaptation through behavioral information, developed in the context of rhythmic movement coordination, are generalized to describe discrete movements of single components and the coordination of multiple components in discrete movement. In a first step we consider only one sp...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Schöner G

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of paleological evidence, it has been suggested that biological evolution need not necessarily be characterized by gradual change. Rather, evolutionary history may display saltatory periods of rapid speciation alternating with periods of relative quiescence, the whole dynamic being called punctuated equil...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Zimmerman ID,Rapp PE

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：: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 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：:The notion that biological systems come to embody optimal solutions seems consistent with the competitive drive of evolution. It has been used to interpret many examples of sensorimotor behavior. It is attractive from the viewpoint of control engineers because it solves the redundancy problem by identifying the one op...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Loeb GE

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes current views on motor and sensory control of extraocular muscles (EOMs) based on anatomical data. The special morphology of EOMs, including their motor innervation, is described in comparison to classical skeletal limb and trunk muscles. The presence of proprioceptive organs is reviewed with em...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lienbacher K,Horn AK

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work proposes a model of visual bottom-up attention for dynamic scene analysis. Our work adds motion saliency calculations to a neural network model with realistic temporal dynamics [(e.g., building motion salience on top of De Brecht and Saiki Neural Networks 19:1467-1474, (2006)]. The resulting network elicits ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Ramirez-Moreno DF,Schwartz O,Ramirez-Villegas JF

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small inhibitory neuronal circuits have long been identified as key neuronal motifs to generate and modulate the coexisting rhythms of various motor functions. Our paper highlights the role of a cellular switching mechanism to orchestrate such circuits. The cellular switch makes the circuits reconfigurable, robust, ad...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Drion G,Franci A,Sepulchre R

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a brief description of the main anatomical structures subserving the oculomotor responses during combined vestibular and optokinetic stimulations, a mathematical model is presented. With respect to a previous model by Schmid et al. (1980), a more accurate definition of the roles of the neural mechanisms involved...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Buizza A,Schmid R

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：: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

abstract：:Depolarization of an excitable membrane has a dual effect; excitatory in that it causes rapid opening of calcium and/or sodium channels but inhibitory in that it also causes those channels to inactivate. We considered whether apparently paradoxical or dual behavior might be exhibited by excitatory and inhibitory synap...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Davenport R,Jakobsson E,Gerber B

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:Systems that generate spike outputs in response to continuous inputs abound in neurophysiology. The study of their dynamics with the use of systems analysis methods has been complicated by the difference in modality of the input and output signals. When the problem is placed in the framework of Wiener's theory in disc...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Marmarelis VZ,Citron MC,Vivo CP

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-clamp of excitable membrane allows the measurement of membrane currents associated with electrical potential changes across the membrane. However, it has been impossible in practice to apply the conventional analog feedback voltage-clamp circuits to single electrode voltage clamping in central neurons. The rea...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kawato M,Etoh M,Oda Y,Tsukahara N

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane excitability changes as well as the underlying mechanisms of these changes in a normal and in a systematically paranodally demyelinated nerve fibre have been investigated by paired stimulation during the first 30 ms of the recovery cycle. The ionic current kinetics determining the observed changes in the ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Stephanova DI

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Connections among ventrolateral medullary respiratory neurons inferred from spike train analysis were incorporated into a model and simulated with the program SYSTM11 (MacGregor 1987). Inspiratory (I) and expiratory (E) neurons with augmenting (AUG) and decrementing (DEC) discharge patterns and rostral I-E/I neurons e...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Balis UJ,Morris KF,Koleski J,Lindsey BG

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the kinematics of goal-directed aiming movements in a reciprocal Fitts' task, a minimal limit cycle model is proposed that is capable of producing the behavior observed at levels of task difficulty ranging from 3 to 7. From graphical and statistical analyses of the phase planes, Hooke's planes and velocity pr...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mottet D,Bootsma RJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：: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：:We discuss natural limitations on motor performance caused by the time delay required for feedback signals to propagate within the human body or mechanical control systems. By considering a very simple delayed linear servomechanism model, we show there exists a best possible speed-accuracy trade-off similar to Fitts' ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Beamish D,Bhatti S,Wu J,Jing Z

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：: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：:Spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) determines the evolution of the synaptic weights according to their pre- and post-synaptic activity, which in turn changes the neuronal activity. In this paper, we extend previous studies of input selectivity induced by (STDP) for single neurons to the biologically interesting ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gilson M,Burkitt AN,Grayden DB,Thomas DA,van Hemmen JL

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00