Dynamics of the olfactory bulb: bifurcations, learning, and memory.

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：: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：:Two different chaotic time series analysis methods--the correlation dimension and nonlinear forecasting--are introduced and then used to process the interspike intervals (ISI) of the action potential trains propagated along a single nerve fiber of the anesthetized rat. From the results, the conclusion is drawn that co...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gong Y,Xu J,Ren W,Hu S,Wang F

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：: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：:We propose a new multilayered neural network model which has the ability of rapid self-organization. This model is a modified version of the cognitron (Fukushima, 1975). It has modifiable inhibitory feedback connections, as well as conventional modifiable excitatory feedforward connections, between the cells of adjoin...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Miyake S,Fukushima K

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms that control the limbs position during rhythmic voluntary oscillations were investigated in ten subjects, who were asked to synchronise the lower peak of their hand or foot rhythmic oscillations to a metronome beat. The efficacy of the "position control" was estimated by measuring the degree of synchron...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Esposti R,Cavallari P,Baldissera F

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated and cultured neonatal cardiac myocytes contract spontaneously and cyclically, and have the properties of a non-linear oscillator. In this study, we have analyzed the relationship between the fluctuation of contraction rhythm of spontaneously beating cultured cardiac myocytes, and the coupling strength among t...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Yamauchi Y,Harada A,Kawahara K

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arthropods as well as mammals are able to return straight home after a random search excursion under conditions that are designed to exclude all external cues. After a brief clarification of the terminology, two principal systems of information processing that can achieve this performance are introduced and analysed: ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mittelstaedt H

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multisegment, multijoint model of a falling animal is presented to examine the effectiveness of a two-stage control scheme in a zero-momentum self-righting maneuver. The model contains a much larger number of degrees of freedom than is required to execute a self-righting maneuver and is thus capable of providing mul...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Arabyan A,Tsai D

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model calculation is presented simulating the coordinated interaction between the walking legs of a multi-legged animal. The neural network consists of separate modules with oscillatory capabilities. It has the ability to adjust the necessary parameters for producing a coordinated interaction between the modules in ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Müller-Wilm U

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article compiles an expose of Valentino Braitenberg's singular view on neuroanatomy and neuroscience. The review emphasizes his topologically informed work on neuroanatomy and his dialectics of brain-based explanations of motor behavior. Some of his early ideas on topologically informed neuroanatomy are presented...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Negrello M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic response of the human ankle joint to a bandlimited random torque perturbation superimposed on a constant bias torque is observed in normal human subjects. The applied torque input, the joint angular rotation output, and the electromyographic activity using surface electrodes from the extensor and the flexo...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Agarwal GC,Goodarzi SM,O'Neill WD,Gottlieb GL

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：: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

abstract：:In neural networks the activation process controls the output as a nonlinear function of the input; and, this output remains bounded between limits as decided by a logistic function known as the sigmoid (S-shaped). Presently, by applying the considerations of Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics, the Langevin function is show...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Neelakanta PS,Sudhakar R,DeGroff D

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that the models for the transduction process in photoreceptors which treat latency and amplification as integrated phenomena ("integrated models") yield time scales for single photon signals ("quantum bumps") which distinctly conflict with the experimentally observed ones for the ventral nerve photorecepto...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Schnakenberg J

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:This paper deals with the problem of representing and generating unconstrained aiming movements of a limb by means of a neural network architecture. The network produced time trajectories of a limb from a starting posture toward targets specified by sensory stimuli. Thus the network performed a sensory-motor transform...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Massone L,Bizzi E

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In motion-processing areas of the visual cortex in cats and monkeys, an anisotropic distribution of direction selectivities displays a preference for movements away from the fovea. This 'centrifugal bias' has been hypothetically linked to the processing of optic flow fields generated during forward locomotion. In this...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lappe M,Rauschecker JP

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:ICE stands for internally coupled ears. More than half of the terrestrial vertebrates, such as frogs, lizards, and birds, as well as many insects, are equipped with ICE that utilize an air-filled cavity connecting the two eardrums. Its effect is pronounced and twofold. On the basis of a solid experimental and mathemat...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： van Hemmen JL,Christensen-Dalsgaard J,Carr CE,Narins PM

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Leg movements of stick insects (Carausius morosus) making turns towards visual targets are examined in detail, and a dynamic model of this behaviour is proposed. Initial results suggest that front legs shape most of the body trajectory, while the middle and hind legs just follow external forces (Rosano H, Webb B, in T...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Rosano H,Webb B

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：: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：:The relationship between disparity and ocular vergence was investigated under closed-loop as well as under open-loop viewing conditions. First we examined whether vergence responded similarly to disparity presented under open-loop and closed-loop conditions. Similar response were observed in both conditions. The direc...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Pobuda M,Erkelens CJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-unit recordings suggest that the midbrain superior colliculus (SC) acts as an optimal controller for saccadic gaze shifts. The SC is proposed to be the site within the visuomotor system where the nonlinear spatial-to-temporal transformation is carried out: the population encodes the intended saccade vector by i...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kasap B,van Opstal AJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00