Information loss in an optimal maximum likelihood decoding.

abstract：:Nondeclarative memory and novelty processing in the brain is an actively studied field of neuroscience, and reducing neural activity with repetition of a stimulus (repetition suppression) is a commonly observed phenomenon. Recent findings of an opposite trend-specifically, rising activity for unfamiliar stimuli-questi...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Makukhin K,Bolland S

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The instantaneous phase of neural rhythms is important to many neuroscience-related studies. In this letter, we show that the statistical sampling properties of three instantaneous phase estimators commonly employed to analyze neuroscience data share common features, allowing an analytical investigation into their beh...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Lepage KQ,Kramer MA,Eden UT

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model, of general character for the dynamic description of coupled neural oscillators is presented. The population approach that is employed applies equally to coupled cells as to populations of such coupled cells. The formulation includes stochasticity and preserves details of precisely firing neurons....

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Sirovich L

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms influencing learning in neural networks are usually investigated on either a local or a global scale. The former relates to synaptic processes, the latter to unspecific modulatory systems. Here we study the interaction of a local learning rule that evaluates coincidences of pre- and postsynaptic action pote...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Sánchez-Montañés MA,Verschure PF,König P

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inner-product operators, often referred to as kernels in statistical learning, define a mapping from some input space into a feature space. The focus of this letter is the construction of biologically motivated kernels for cortical activities. The kernels we derive, termed Spikernels, map spike count sequences into an...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Shpigelman L,Singer Y,Paz R,Vaadia E

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nu-support vector machine (nu-SVM) for classification proposed by Schölkopf, Smola, Williamson, and Bartlett (2000) has the advantage of using a parameter nu on controlling the number of support vectors. In this article, we investigate the relation between nu-SVM and C-SVM in detail. We show that in general they a...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Chang CC,Lin CJ

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental studies of reasoning and planned behavior have provided evidence that nervous systems use internal models to perform predictive motor control, imagery, inference, and planning. Classical (model-free) reinforcement learning approaches omit such a model; standard sensorimotor models account for forward and ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Toussaint M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider learning a causal ordering of variables in a linear nongaussian acyclic model called LiNGAM. Several methods have been shown to consistently estimate a causal ordering assuming that all the model assumptions are correct. But the estimation results could be distorted if some assumptions are violated. In thi...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Tashiro T,Shimizu S,Hyvärinen A,Washio T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Firing rates and synchronous firing are often simultaneously relevant signals, and they independently or cooperatively represent external sensory inputs, cognitive events, and environmental situations such as body position. However, how rates and synchrony comodulate and which aspects of inputs are effectively encoded...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Masuda N

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When subjects adapt their reaching movements in the setting of a systematic force or visual perturbation, generalization of adaptation can be assessed psychophysically in two ways: by testing untrained locations in the work space at the end of adaptation (slow postadaptation generalization) or by determining the influ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Tanaka H,Krakauer JW,Sejnowski TJ

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decision trees and neural networks are widely used tools for pattern classification. Decision trees provide highly localized representation, whereas neural networks provide a distributed but compact representation of the decision space. Decision trees cannot be induced in the online mode, and they are not adaptive to ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Basak J

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hebbian paradigm is perhaps the best-known unsupervised learning theory in connectionism. It has inspired wide research activity in the artificial neural network field because it embodies some interesting properties such as locality and the capability of being applicable to the basic weight-and-sum structure of ne...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Fiori S

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this letter, we investigate the fundamental limits on how the interspike time of a neuron oscillator can be perturbed by the application of a bounded external control input (a current stimulus) with zero net electric charge accumulation. We use phase models to study the dynamics of neurons and derive charge-balance...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Dasanayake IS,Li JS

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A firing rate map, also known as a tuning curve, describes the nonlinear relationship between a neuron's spike rate and a low-dimensional stimulus (e.g., orientation, head direction, contrast, color). Here we investigate Bayesian active learning methods for estimating firing rate maps in closed-loop neurophysiology ex...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Park M,Weller JP,Horwitz GD,Pillow JW

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The important task of generating the minimum number of sequential triangle strips (tristrips) for a given triangulated surface model is motivated by applications in computer graphics. This hard combinatorial optimization problem is reduced to the minimum energy problem in Hopfield nets by a linear-size construction. I...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Síma J,Lnĕnicka R

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we study how the selection of examples affects the learning procedure in a boolean neural network and its relationship with the complexity of the function under study and its architecture. We analyze the generalization capacity for different target functions with particular architectures through an analy...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Franco L,Cannas SA

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical theory of interacting hypercolumns in primary visual cortex (V1) is presented that incorporates details concerning the anisotropic nature of long-range lateral connections. Each hypercolumn is modeled as a ring of interacting excitatory and inhibitory neural populations with orientation preferences over...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Bressloff PC,Cowan JD

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Independent component analysis (ICA) finds a linear transformation to variables that are maximally statistically independent. We examine ICA and algorithms for finding the best transformation from the point of view of maximizing the likelihood of the data. In particular, we discuss the way in which scaling of the unmi...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Everson R,Roberts S

更新日期：1999-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We study a model of the cortical macrocolumn consisting of a collection of inhibitorily coupled minicolumns. The proposed system overcomes several severe deficits of systems based on single neurons as cerebral functional units, notably limited robustness to damage and unrealistically large computation time. Motivated ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Lücke J,von der Malsburg C

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many neurons that initially respond to a stimulus stop responding if the stimulus is presented repeatedly but recover their response if a different stimulus is presented. This phenomenon is referred to as stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA). SSA has been investigated extensively using oddball experiments, which measure...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Mill R,Coath M,Wennekers T,Denham SL

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to achieve high swimming speed and efficiency is very important to both the real lamprey and its robotic implementation. In previous studies, we used evolutionary algorithms to evolve biologically plausible connectionist swimming controllers for a simulated lamprey. This letter investigates the robustness ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Or J

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this letter, we propose a noisy nonlinear version of independent component analysis (ICA). Assuming that the probability density function (p. d. f.) of sources is known, a learning rule is derived based on maximum likelihood estimation (MLE). Our model involves some algorithms of noisy linear ICA (e. g., Bermond & ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Maeda S,Song WJ,Ishii S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complexity of one-hidden-layer networks is studied using tools from nonlinear approximation and integration theory. For functions with suitable integral representations in the form of networks with infinitely many hidden units, upper bounds are derived on the speed of decrease of approximation error as the number of n...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Kainen PC,Kůrková V

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a biological nervous system, astrocytes play an important role in the functioning and interaction of neurons, and astrocytes have excitatory and inhibitory influence on synapses. In this work, with this biological inspiration, a class of computation devices that consist of neurons and astrocytes is introduced, call...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Pan L,Wang J,Hoogeboom HJ

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between a neuron's complex inputs and its spiking output defines the neuron's coding strategy. This is frequently and effectively modeled phenomenologically by one or more linear filters that extract the components of the stimulus that are relevant for triggering spikes and a nonlinear function that r...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Famulare M,Fairhall A

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We extend the neural Turing machine (NTM) model into a dynamic neural Turing machine (D-NTM) by introducing trainable address vectors. This addressing scheme maintains for each memory cell two separate vectors, content and address vectors. This allows the D-NTM to learn a wide variety of location-based addressing stra...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Gulcehre C,Chandar S,Cho K,Bengio Y

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons perform computations, and convey the results of those computations through the statistical structure of their output spike trains. Here we present a practical method, grounded in the information-theoretic analysis of prediction, for inferring a minimal representation of that structure and for characterizing it...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Haslinger R,Klinkner KL,Shalizi CR

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For gradient descent learning to yield connectivity consistent with real biological networks, the simulated neurons would have to include more realistic intrinsic properties such as frequency adaptation. However, gradient descent learning cannot be used straightforwardly with adapting rate-model neurons because the de...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Fortier PA,Guigon E,Burnod Y

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the effect of competition between short-term synaptic depression and facilitation on the dynamic properties of attractor neural networks, using Monte Carlo simulation and a mean-field analysis. Depending on the balance of depression, facilitation, and the underlying noise, the network displays different behav...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Torres JJ,Cortes JM,Marro J,Kappen HJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present formal specification and verification of a robot moving in a complex network, using temporal sequence learning to avoid obstacles. Our aim is to demonstrate the benefit of using a formal approach to analyze such a system as a complementary approach to simulation. We first describe a classical closed-loop si...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Kirwan R,Miller A,Porr B,Di Prodi P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00