Simulation of nonstationary EEG.

abstract：:The effect of spatial frequency discrimination learning on spatial frequency detection tuning curves, obtained by a summation to threshold paradigm, has been investigated. Three human observers were exposed to a grating discrimination task for longer than two weeks, and their detection thresholds for compound Gabor gr...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Meinhardt G

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：:In this paper we perform a bifurcation analysis for a discrete time dynamical system, describing the behavior of a virtual fly, developed by Böddeker and Egelhaaf (2003). Like real blowflies, the virtual counterparts exhibit a dichotomous behavior: they catch small targets but follow big objects at a constant distance...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hüls T

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is carried out on single (not averaged) recordings combining the spontaneous activity preceding the stimulus onset and the EP recorded upon acoustical stimulation. These recordings, which we call EEG-EPograms, are measured simultaneously from different subdural structures, such as the auditory cortex, media...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Başar E,Durusan R,Gönder A,Ungan P

更新日期：1979-09-01 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：:The detection of small radially symmetric targets was studied using a subthreshold summation paradigm. Small disc and disc-like patterns with diameters up to 0.60 were used for superposition on Bessel functions of zero order, subthreshold contrast and various spatial frequencies. Contrast interrelation functions prove...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mortensen U,Meinhardt G

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the dynamics of a system of coupled nonlinear oscillators that has been used to model coordinated human movement behavior. In contrast to earlier work we examine the case where the two component oscillators have different eigenfrequencies. Problems related to the decomposition of a time series (from an experi...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Fuchs A,Jirsa VK,Haken H,Kelso JA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the various possible criteria guiding eye movement selection, we investigate the role of position uncertainty in the peripheral visual field. In particular, we suggest that, in everyday life situations of object tracking, eye movement selection probably includes a principle of reduction of uncertainty. To evalua...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Colas F,Flacher F,Tanner T,Bessière P,Girard B

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of dendritic geometry on somatopetal transfer of the current generated by steady uniform activation of excitatory synaptic conductance distributed over passive, or active (Hodgkin-Huxley type), dendrites was studied in simulated neurons. Such tonic activation was delivered to the uniform dendrite and to the...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Korogod SM,Kulagina IB

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The order parameter equation for the relative phase of correlated hand movements, derived in a previous paper by Haken et al. (1985), is extended to a time-dependent stochastic differential equation. Its solutions are determined close to stationary points and for the transition region. Remarkably good agreement betwee...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Schöner G,Haken H,Kelso JA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic plasticity is considered to be the biological substrate of learning and memory. In this document we review phenomenological models of short-term and long-term synaptic plasticity, in particular spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP). The aim of the document is to provide a framework for classifying and eval...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Morrison A,Diesmann M,Gerstner W

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a simple measure of neural sensitivity for characterizing stimulus coding. Sensitivity is defined as the fraction of neurons that show positive responses to n stimuli out of a total of N. To determine a positive response, we propose two methods: Fisherian statistical testing and a data-driven Bayesian appro...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Rodríguez FB,Huerta R

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Histograms of fast-phase intervals in human optokinetic and vestibular nystagmus were generated, and fitted to statistical distributions used in previous studies. The distributions did not depend on stimulation type (optokinetic or vestibular). An inverse Gaussian or a gamma distribution fitted the data better than di...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Trillenberg P,Zee DS,Shelhamer M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proposal that rod outer segment length is optimal with respect to photon absorption and noise control is extended and tested in a number of species. We find good agreement with our optimality criterion in duplex retinae where rods act as detectors of one or a few photons, but not in all rod retinae nor in those wh...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Leibovic KN,Moreno-Diaz R Jr

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current research, the muscle equivalent linear damping coefficient which is introduced as the force-velocity relation in a muscle model and the corresponding time constant are investigated. In order to reach this goal, a 1D skeletal muscle model was used. Two characterizations of this model using a linear force...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Ovesy M,Nazari MA,Mahdavian M

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important step in visual processing is the segregation of objects in a visual scene from one another and from the embedding background. According to current theories of visual neuroscience, the different features of a particular object are represented by cells which are spatially distributed across multiple visual ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Schillen TB,König P

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flies have the capability to visually track small moving targets, even across cluttered backgrounds. Previous computational models, based on figure detection (FD) cells identified in the fly, have suggested how this may be accomplished at a neuronal level based on information about relative motion between the target a...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Higgins CM,Pant V

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider a general integrate-and-fire (IF) neuron driven by asymmetric dichotomous noise. In contrast to the Gaussian white noise usually used in the so-called diffusion approximation, this noise is colored, i.e., it exhibits temporal correlations. We give an analytical expression for the stationary voltage distrib...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Droste F,Lindner B

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：: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：:In the neural superposition eye of a dipteran fly every ommatidium has eight photoreceptors, each associated with a rhabdomere, two central and six peripheral, which altogether result in seven functional light guides. Groups of eight rhabdomeres in neighboring ommatidia have largely overlapping fields of view. Based o...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bitsakos K,Fermüller C

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：:In recent years, a great deal of research within the field of sound localization has been aimed at finding the acoustic cues that human listeners use to localize sounds and understanding the mechanisms by which they process these cues. In this paper, we propose a complementary approach by constructing an ideal-observe...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Reijniers J,Vanderelst D,Jin C,Carlile S,Peremans H

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is proposed to determine the rigid structure as well as the three dimensional motion of an object from a sequence of orthographically projected images. It is assumed that the velocities as well as the positions of the points attached to the object are observable in the images. The "instantaneous rigidity cond...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Sugie N,Inagaki H

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spikes in the membrane potential of neurons comprise the currency of information processing in the brain. The ability of neurons to convert any information present across their multiple inputs into a significant modification to the pattern of their emitted spikes depends on the rate at which they emit spikes. If the m...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Miller P,Cannon J

更新日期：2019-04-01 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