Determining the degree of chaos from analysis of ISI time series in the nervous system: a comparison between correlation dimension and nonlinear forecasting methods.

abstract：:The aim of this study was to obtain information on the axonal diameters of cortico-cortical fibres in the human brain, connecting distant regions of the same hemisphere via the white matter. Samples for electron microscopy were taken from the region of the superior longitudinal fascicle and from the transitional white...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Liewald D,Miller R,Logothetis N,Wagner HJ,Schüz A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapidly adapting (RA) currents expressed in dorsal root ganglia somatosensory neurons reduce their amplitude in response to prolonged and/or repeated mechanical stimulation. Both inactivation of mechanotransducer channels and adaptation of the force acting on the channels have been suggested to independently decrease ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Prešern J,Škorjanc A,Rodič T,Benda J

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most robot navigation systems perform place recognition using a single-sensor modality and one, or at most two heterogeneous map scales. In contrast, mammals perform navigation by combining sensing from a wide variety of modalities including vision, auditory, olfactory and tactile senses with a multi-scale, homogeneou...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Jacobson A,Chen Z,Milford M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a novel optimal control algorithm to change the phase of an oscillator using a minimum energy input, which also minimizes the oscillator's transversal distance to the uncontrolled periodic orbit. Our algorithm uses a two-dimensional reduction technique based on both isochrons and isostables. We develop a no...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Monga B,Moehlis J

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a procedure that optimally adjusts specified parameters of a mathematical model to describe a set of measured data. The technique integrates a dynamic systems-simulation language with a robust algorithm for nonlinear parameter estimation, and it can be implemented on a microcomputer. Sensitivity functions a...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Huebner WP,Saidel GM,Leigh RJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the first part of lifting movements, the trunk movement is surprisingly resistant to perturbations. This study examined which factors contribute to this perturbation resistance of the trunk during lifting. Three possible mechanisms were studied: force-length-velocity characteristics of muscles, the momentum of the ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： van der Burg JC,Casius LJ,Kingma I,van Dieën JH,van Soest AJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：: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 extend a quantitative model for low-voltage, slow-wave excitability based on the T-type calcium current (Wang et al. 1991) by juxtaposing it with a Hodgkin-Huxley-like model for fast sodium spiking in the high voltage regime to account for the distinct firing modes of thalamic neurons. We employ bifurcation analysi...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Rush ME,Rinzel J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimating the behavior of a network of neurons requires accurate models of the individual neurons along with accurate characterizations of the connections among them. Whereas for a single cell, measurements of the intracellular voltage are technically feasible and sufficient to characterize a useful model of its beha...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Knowlton C,Meliza CD,Margoliash D,Abarbanel HD

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical control of respiration provides for the maintenance of energy and substance equilibrium primarily and for the homoeostatic stability of the chemical blood parameters secondarily. Based on results having been obtained from an appropriate state space model some findings on respiration can be reproduced. In ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Balla K

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:We present a biologically oriented model that accounts for left-right discrimination in the cockroach's escape behavior. The model includes the main groups of neurons found to be involved in the escape response. Each one of the included neurons is described by the actual processes taking place in an individual neuron ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Ezrachi EA,Levi R,Camhi JM,Parnas H

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:The stoichiometric and kinetic details of transmitter-receptor interaction (the number of conformations and the rate constants of conformation changes( in synaptic transmission have been investigated analyzing postsynaptic membrane noises by the aid of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem of stochastic chemical kinetic...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Erdi P,Ropolyi L

更新日期：1979-02-02 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：:1. Results from the companion paper were incorporated into a physiologically realistic computer model of the three principal cell types (PD/AB, LP, PY) of the pyloric network in the stomatogastric ganglion. Parameters for the model were mostly calculated (sometimes estimated) from experimental data rather than fitting...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hartline DK

更新日期：1979-08-01 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：:We have previously proposed that electrocortical waves are linear waves, subject to regulation by mesotelencephalic dopaminergic neurones. As a further means to test this theory, selective unilateral lesions of varying extent were made in the nucleii of origin of the dopaminergic mesotelencephalic tract. Changes in th...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Wright JJ,Kydd RR,Lees GJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work a linear model for a pair of antagonistic muscles is analysed. Each constituent muscle in this model is identical to ones considered previously (Stein and Oğuztöreli, 1976). Analytical properties of the antagonistic muscles and dynamics of the system are described and some numerical results are dis...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Oğuztöreli MN,Stein RB

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchronization of the oscillatory discharge of cortical neurons could be a part of the mechanism that is involved in cortical information processing. On the assumption that the basic functional unit is the column composed of local excitatory and inhibitory cells and generating oscillatory neural activity, a network m...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Fukai T

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:This paper presents a model for the circadian temporization system of mammals which associates the synchronization dynamics of coupling oscillators to a set of equations able to reproduce the synaptic characteristics of somatodendritic membrane of neurons. The circadian timing system is organized in a way to receive i...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Cardoso FR,de Oliveira Cruz FA,Silva D,Cortez CM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With regular trains of stimuli at a high frequency, the contribution of each stimulus to the force generated over time declines from the second to about the tenth stimulus, but then begins to increase again. This late increase is referred to as tetanic potentiation in analogy with the post-tetanic potentiation of the ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Parmiggiani F,Stein RB,Rolf R

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In neuronal networks, the changes of synaptic strength (or weight) performed by spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) are hypothesized to give rise to functional network structure. This article investigates how this phenomenon occurs for the excitatory recurrent connections of a network with fixed input weights tha...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

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

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Color vision in humans is independent over a wide range of the spectral composition of the illuminating light (Young 1807; Hering 1879). The retinex theory accounts for this color constancy by assuming that for each of the three waveband channels determined by the retinal cones a global lightness record of the scene i...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Wehrhahn C

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:David Marr and others have hypothesized that the visual system processes complex scene information in stages, the first of which involves the detection of light intensity edges or "zero-crossings" (Marr, 1982). Ideal zero-crossing detector mechanisms have been described and modeled in terms of their possible physiolog...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hochstein S,Spitzer H

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00