A ring model for spatiotemporal properties of simple cells in the visual cortex.

abstract：:This paper introduces a theoretical frame-work for characterizing and classifying simple parallel algorithms and systems with many inputs, for example an array of photoreceptors. The polynomial representation (Taylor series development) of a large class of operators is introduced and its range of validity discussed. T...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Poggio T,Reichardt W

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：: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：:Cognitive theory has decomposed human mental abilities into cognitive (sub) systems, and cognitive neuroscience succeeded in disclosing a host of relationships between cognitive systems and specific structures of the human brain. However, an explanation of why specific functions are located in specific brain loci had ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Pulvermüller F,Garagnani M,Wennekers T

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：:Involuntary eye movements were recorded during threshold detection tasks under various experimental conditions. The data were analyzed for interdependencies between stimulus parameters, detection performance, and oculomotor behaviour. The data demonstrate that under certain conditions, saccadic parameters are adaptive...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Deubel H,Elsner T

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:Inner hair cells (IHCs) transform the mechanical movements of the basilar membrane into electrical impulses. The impulse coding of the IHCs is the main information carrier in the auditory process and is the basis for improvements of cochlea implants as well as for low rate, high-quality speech processing and compressi...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Meyer-Bäse U,Meyer-Bäse A,Scheich H

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：: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：: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：:A new method is presented for quantitative evaluation of single-sweep phase and amplitude electro-encephalogram (EEG) characteristics that is a more informative approach in comparison with conventional signal averaging. In the averaged potential, phase-locking and amplitude effects of the EEG response cannot be separa...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kolev V,Yordanova J

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Two computer controlled experiments in an olfactory cross-modal matching task, using two-component odour mixtures matched against bar diagrams, were designed so that stimulus presentation was contingent upon the recent performance of the subject; stimuli that were relatively poorly (in experiment 1) or well (in experi...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gregson RA,Gates A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model is presented which accounts for many characteristic response properties used to classify anuran ganglion cell types while being consistent with data concerning interneurons. In the model color is ignored and input stimuli are assumed to be only black and white at high contrast. We show that accurate ganglion c...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Teeters JL,Arbib MA

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：: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：:Response patterns recorded with 30 microelectrodes from area 17 of anaesthetized monkeys are analysed. A proportion of the patterns are used to define prototype response patterns. These in turn are used to recognize the stimulus from further non-averaged response patterns. In comparison, recognition by a feedforward '...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Becker JD,Krüger J

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Firing-rate models describing neural-network activity can be formulated in terms of differential equations for the synaptic drive from neurons. Such models are typically derived from more general models based on Volterra integral equations assuming exponentially decaying temporal coupling kernels describing the coupli...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Nordbø O,Wyller J,Einevoll GT

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:Goal directed movements, executed by means of a manipulator with various dynamics, were investigated in order to establish to what extent the loading affects the executed movement. The desired movement concept, together with a describing function model for goal directed movements, was applied to parameterize the movem...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Ruitenbeek JC

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical and experimental study on the detection of a square wave pattern of random dots is presented. Our theory applies to two-alternative forced choice experiments as well as to "seen"-"not seen" discrimination experiments. In our experiments we used the forced choice method. The theory provides a good descrip...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lelkens AM,Oppeneer PM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Panoramic image differences can be used for view-based homing under natural outdoor conditions, because they increase smoothly with distance from a reference location (Zeil et al., J Opt Soc Am A 20(3):450-469, 2003). The particular shape, slope and depth of such image difference functions (IDFs) recorded at any one p...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Stürzl W,Zeil J

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in sensory cortices are often assumed to be "feature detectors", computing simple and then successively more complex features out of the incoming sensory stream. These features are somehow integrated into percepts. Despite many years of research, a convincing candidate for such a feature in primary auditory co...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Nelken I,Fishbach A,Las L,Ulanovsky N,Farkas D

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For over 75 years it has been clear that the number of spikes in a neural response is an important part of the neuronal code. Starting as early as the 1950's with MacKay and McCullough, there has been speculation over whether each spike and its exact time of occurrence carry information. Although it is obvious that th...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Richmond BJ

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：: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 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：:In the context of the models of structure from motion visual processing, we propose that the optic-flow field is a source of information for the perception of the curvature of a smooth surface in motion. In particular, it is shown how the spin variation (SV), a second spatial derivative of the retinal velocity field, ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Droulez J,Cornilleau-Pérès V

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00