Simulations of a ventrolateral medullary neural network for respiratory rhythmogenesis inferred from spike train cross-correlation.

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：:The short-term (i.e., days) and long-term (i.e., months) effects of adaptation to posturography examinations were investigated in 12 normal subjects who were repeatedly examined for five consecutive days and again after 90 days. The examinations were conducted both with eyes open and closed, and the perturbations were...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Fransson PA,Tjernström F,Hafström A,Magnusson M,Johansson R

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：:Computational and behavioral studies suggest that visual motion discrimination is based on quadratic nonlinearities. This raises the question of whether the behavior of motion sensitive neurons early in the visual system is actually quadratic. Theoretical studies show that mechanisms proposed for retinal directional s...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Grzywacz NM,Amthor FR,Mistler LA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the dynamic effects of external forces on the displacement of the otolith membrane and subsequent neuronal responses of otoliths, we performed numerical analyses of otolith membrane displacements. In these studies we included the full geometry of the human otolith maculae, including their 3D curvature. ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Jaeger R,Haslwanter T

更新日期：2004-03-01 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：:Within a wide class of multichannel models of the visual system it is suggested that spatial distributions of luminance are processed by the independent activation of grating detectors, or spatial frequency channels. Probability summation is often described in terms of Quick's nonlinear pooling model [Quick RF (1974) ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Meinhardt G

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models built using mean data can represent only a very small percentage, or none, of the population being modeled, and produce different activity than any member of it. Overcoming this "averaging" pitfall requires measuring, in single individuals in single experiments, all of the system's defining characteristics. We ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Blümel M,Guschlbauer C,Daun-Gruhn S,Hooper SL,Büschges A

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:Neuronal excitability under stimuli with a complex time course is investigated on the basis of the numerical solution of the Hodgkin-Huxley equations. Each stimulus is composed of 100-1000 unitary excitatory postsynaptic potentials (uEPSP) that start randomly within a definite time window. Probability of initiating a ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Vidybida AK

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:Motion control of musculoskeletal systems for functional electrical stimulation (FES) is a challenging problem due to the inherent complexity of the systems. These include being highly nonlinear, strongly coupled, time-varying, time-delayed, and redundant. The redundancy in particular makes it difficult to find an inv...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Park H,Durand DM

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:We have developed two algorithms that construct a simultaneous functional order in a collection of neural elements using purely functional relations. The input of the first algorithm is a matrix describing the total of covariances of signals carried by the members of the neural collection. The second algorithm proceed...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Toet A,Blom J,Koenderink JJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary transition from water to land required new locomotor modes and corresponding adjustments of the spinal "central pattern generators" for locomotion. Salamanders resemble the first terrestrial tetrapods and represent a key animal for the study of these changes. Based on recent physiological data from sa...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bicanski A,Ryczko D,Cabelguen JM,Ijspeert AJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper proposes multiport parallel and multidirectional intraconnected associative memories of outer product type with reduced interconnections. Some new reduced order memory architectures such as k-directional and k-port parallel memories are suggested. These architectures are, also, very suitable for implementat...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bhatti AA

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：: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：:Akinematical model for excitable wave propagation is analyzed to describe the dynamics of a typical neurological symptom of migraine. The kinematical model equation is solved analytically for a linear dependency between front curvature and velocity. The resulting wave starts from an initial excitation and moves in the...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Dahlem MA,Müller SC

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：: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：:This article provides an introductory overview of the state of research on Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling in cognitive development. First, a brief historical summary and a definition of hierarchies in Bayesian modeling are given. Subsequently, some model structures are described based on four examples in the literatur...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Glassen T,Nitsch V

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vestibuloocular reflex and other oculomotor functions are subserved by populations of neurons operating in parallel. This distributed aspect of the system's organization has been largely ignored in previous block diagram models. Neurons that transmit oculomotor signals, such as those in the vestibular nucleus (VN)...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Anastasio TJ,Robinson DA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method based on neural networks to cluster proteins into families is described. The network is trained with the Kohonen unsupervised learning algorithm, using matrix pattern representations of the protein sequences as inputs. The components (x, y) of these 20 x 20 matrix patterns are the normalized frequencies o...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Ferrán EA,Ferrara P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider a simple electronic circuit model of a single neuron. The neuron is assumed to be driven by an external signal comprising constant (dc) and random components. In addition, the nonlinearity parameter in the circuit is assumed to fluctuate, thereby giving rise to critical behavior including the onset of hyst...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bulsara AR,Boss RD,Jacobs EW

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problems related to kinematic redundancy in both task and joint space were investigated for arm prehension movements in this paper. After a detailed analysis of kinematic redundancy of the arm, it is shown that the redundancy problem is ill posed only for the control of hand orientation. An experiment was then des...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Wang X

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article analyzes the question of whether neuroscience allows for mathematical descriptions and whether an interaction between experimental and theoretical neuroscience can be expected to benefit both of them. It is argued that a mathematization of natural phenomena never happens by itself. First, appropriate key ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： van Hemmen JL

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00