A pacemaker cell pair model based on the phase response curve.

abstract：:The high speed of saccades means that they cannot be guided by visual feedback, so that any saccadic control system must know in advance the correct output signals to fixate a particular retinal position. To investigate neural-net architectures for learning this inverse-kinematics problem we simulated a 4 deg-of-freed...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Dean P,Mayhew JE,Thacker N,Langdon PM

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several formulations of correlation-based Hebbian learning are reviewed. On the presynaptic side, activity is described either by a firing rate or by presynaptic spike arrival. The state of the postsynaptic neuron can be described by its membrane potential, its firing rate, or the timing of backpropagating action pote...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gerstner W,Kistler WM

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:A mathematical model of the central neural mechanisms of respiratory rhythm generation is developed. This model assumes that the respiratory cycle consists of three phases: inspiration, post-inspiration, and expiration. Five respiratory neuronal groups are included: inspiratory, late-inspiratory, post-inspiratory, exp...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Botros SM,Bruce EN

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：: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：:How do biological agents plan and organise a smooth accurate path to shift from one smooth mode of behaviour to another as part of graceful movement that is both plastic and controlled? This paper addresses the question in conducting a novel shape analysis of approach and adjustment phases in rapid voluntary target ai...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Weir MK,Wale AP

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:Insects can remember and return to a place of interest using the surrounding visual cues. In previous experiments, we showed that crickets could home to an invisible cool spot in a hot environment. They did so most effectively with a natural scene surround, though they were also able to home with distinct landmarks or...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mangan M,Webb B

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

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：:Multiplying memory span by mental speed, we obtain the information entropy of short-term memory capacity, which is rate-limiting for cognitive functions and corresponds with EEG power spectral density. The number of EEG harmonics (n = 1, 2,..., 9) is identical with memory span, and the eigenvalues of the EEG impulse r...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Weiss V

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vision of everyday scenes, features requiring detection are frequently observed in the presence of suprathreshold background structures. Detection of such features is a contrast discrimination task and is often necessary for the subsequent process of recognition. In order to provide a description of this task, cont...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Burton GJ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conductance-based refractory density (CBRD) approach is an efficient tool for modeling interacting neuronal populations. The model describes the firing activity of a statistical ensemble of uncoupled Hodgkin-Huxley-like neurons, each receiving individual Gaussian noise and a common time-varying deterministic input...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Chizhov AV

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We offer a hypothesis on the organization of multi-effector motor synergies and illustrate it with the task of force production with a set of fingers. A physical metaphor, a leaking bucket, is analyzed to demonstrate that an inanimate structure can show apparent error compensation among its elements. A neural model is...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Latash ML,Shim JK,Smilga AV,Zatsiorsky VM

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many applications of signal processing, especially in communications and biomedicine, preprocessing is necessary to remove noise from data recorded by multiple sensors. Typically, each sensor or electrode measures the noisy mixture of original source signals. In this paper a noise reduction technique using independ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Vorobyov S,Cichocki A

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we present a systematic method for generating simulations of nonstationary EEG. Such simulations are needed, for example, in the evaluation of tracking algorithms. First a state evolution process is simulated. The states are initially represented as segments of stationary autoregressive processes which a...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kaipio JP,Karjalainen PA

更新日期：1997-05-01 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

abstract：:Taste buds endure extreme changes in temperature, pH, osmolarity, so on. Even though taste bud cells are replaced in a short span, they contribute to consistent taste reception. Each taste bud consists of about 50 cells whose networks are assumed to process taste information, at least preliminarily. In this article, w...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Tateno K,Igarashi J,Ohtubo Y,Nakada K,Miki T,Yoshii K

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central pattern generator (CPG) is built to control a mechanical device (plant) inspired by the pyloric chamber of the lobster. Conductance-based models are used to construct the neurons of the CPG. The plant has an associated function that measures the amount of food flowing through it per unit of time. We search f...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Huerta R,Sánchez-Montañés MA,Corbacho F,Sigüenza JA

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beck (1972, 1973) hypothesized that textural segmentation occurs strongly on the basis of simple properties such as brightness, color, size, and the slopes of contours and lines of the elemental descriptors of a texture or textural elements. The experiment reported supports the hypothesis that specific stimulus featur...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Beck J

更新日期：1983-01-01 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 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：:It is shown that a convolution with certain reasonable receptive field (RF) profiles yields the exact partial derivatives of the retinal illuminance blurred to a specified degree. Arbitrary concatenations of such RF profiles yield again similar ones of higher order and for a greater degree of blurring. By replacing th...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Koenderink JJ,van Doorn AJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Explosive movements such as throwing, kicking, and jumping are characterized by high velocity and short movement time. Due to the fact that latencies of neural feedback loops are long in comparison to movement times, correction of deviations cannot be achieved on the basis of neural feedback. In other words, the contr...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： van Soest AJ,Bobbert MF

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a model for the development of ocularity domains in the visual cortex of mammals during the embryonic stage. We model the thalamo-cortical pathway with a self-organising neural network with two source layers, each of them serving different retinae, and one target layer, where the connections end. The connec...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Andrade MA,Morán F

更新日期：1996-03-01 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 question was investigated whether long-lasting transients of activity, observed to occur in the intact cerebral cortex (EEG slow (delta) waves and 'K' complexes) as well as in isolated tissues cultured in vitro, can also emerge in a model network of excitatory and inhibitory cells. We show that such transients can...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： van Ooyen A,van Pelt J,Corner MA,da Silva FH

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00