Estimating spiking irregularities under changing environments.

abstract：:Field models provide an elegant mathematical framework to analyze large-scale patterns of neural activity. On the microscopic level, these models are usually based on either a firing-rate picture or integrate-and-fire dynamics. This article shows that in spite of the large conceptual differences between the two types ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Cremers D,Herz AV

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pyloric network of the stomatogastric ganglion in crustacea is a central pattern generator that can produce the same basic rhythm over a wide frequency range. Three electrically coupled neurons, the anterior burster (AB) neuron and two pyloric dilator (PD) neurons, act as a pacemaker unit for the pyloric network. ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Abbott LF,Marder E,Hooper SL

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:In this letter, we examine a general method of approximation, known as the Kikuchi approximation method, for finding the marginals of a product distribution, as well as the corresponding partition function. The Kikuchi approximation method defines a certain constrained optimization problem, called the Kikuchi problem,...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Pakzad P,Anantharam V

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromorphic engineering combines the architectural and computational principles of systems neuroscience with semiconductor electronics, with the aim of building efficient and compact devices that mimic the synaptic and neural machinery of the brain. The energy consumptions promised by neuromorphic engineering are ext...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Martí D,Rigotti M,Seok M,Fusi S

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple adjacent, roughly mirror-image topographic maps are commonly observed in the sensory neocortex of many species. The cortical regions occupied by these maps are generally believed to be determined initially by genetically controlled chemical markers during development, with thalamocortical afferent activity su...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Schulz R,Reggia JA

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bayesian evidence framework has been successfully applied to the design of multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) in the work of MacKay. Nevertheless, the training of MLPs suffers from drawbacks like the nonconvex optimization problem and the choice of the number of hidden units. In support vector machines (SVMs) for class...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Van Gestel T,Suykens JA,Lanckriet G,Lambrechts A,De Moor B,Vandewalle J

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calculation of the total conductance change induced by multiple synapses at a given membrane compartment remains one of the most time-consuming processes in biophysically realistic neural network simulations. Here we show that this calculation can be achieved in a highly efficient way even for multiply converging syna...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Köhn J,Wörgötter F

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a first-order nonhomogeneous Markov model for the interspike-interval density of a continuously stimulated spiking neuron. The model allows the conditional interspike-interval density and the stationary interspike-interval density to be expressed as products of two separate functions, one of which describes...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Tapson J,Jin C,van Schaik A,Etienne-Cummings R

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topographic maps such as the self-organizing map (SOM) or neural gas (NG) constitute powerful data mining techniques that allow simultaneously clustering data and inferring their topological structure, such that additional features, for example, browsing, become available. Both methods have been introduced for vectori...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Hammer B,Hasenfuss A

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade the importance of synchronized dynamics in the brain has emerged from both empirical and theoretical perspectives. Fast dynamic synchronous interactions of an oscillatory or nonoscillatory nature may constitute a form of temporal coding that underlies feature binding and perceptual synthesis. The re...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Chawla D,Lumer ED,Friston KJ

更新日期：1999-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In learning theory, the training and test sets are assumed to be drawn from the same probability distribution. This assumption is also followed in practical situations, where matching the training and test distributions is considered desirable. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we show that mismatched training and test...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： González CR,Abu-Mostafa YS

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this letter, we investigate the impact of choosing different loss functions from the viewpoint of statistical learning theory. We introduce a convexity assumption, which is met by all loss functions commonly used in the literature, and study how the bound on the estimation error changes with the loss. We also deriv...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Rosasco L,De Vito E,Caponnetto A,Piana M,Verri A

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that Langevin Markov chain Monte Carlo inference in an energy-based model with latent variables has the property that the early steps of inference, starting from a stationary point, correspond to propagating error gradients into internal layers, similar to backpropagation. The backpropagated error is with resp...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Bengio Y,Mesnard T,Fischer A,Zhang S,Wu Y

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:The statistical dependencies that independent component analysis (ICA) cannot remove often provide rich information beyond the linear independent components. It would thus be very useful to estimate the dependency structure from data. While such models have been proposed, they have usually concentrated on higher-order...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Sasaki H,Gutmann MU,Shouno H,Hyvärinen A

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：:We describe a model of short-term synaptic depression that is derived from a circuit implementation. The dynamics of this circuit model is similar to the dynamics of some theoretical models of short-term depression except that the recovery dynamics of the variable describing the depression is nonlinear and it also dep...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Boegerhausen M,Suter P,Liu SC

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：:We present a model of visual computation based on tightly inter-connected cliques of pyramidal cells. It leads to a formal theory of cell assemblies, a specific relationship between correlated firing patterns and abstract functionality, and a direct calculation relating estimates of cortical cell counts to orientation...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Miller DA,Zucker SW

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We simulate the inhibition of Ia-glutamatergic excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP) by preceding it with glycinergic recurrent (REN) and reciprocal (REC) inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (IPSPs). The inhibition is evaluated in the presence of voltage-dependent conductances of sodium, delayed rectifier potassium,...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Gradwohl G,Grossman Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacologically isolated GABAergic irregular spiking and stuttering interneurons in the mouse visual cortex display highly irregular spike times, with high coefficients of variation approximately 0.9-3, in response to a depolarizing, constant current input. This is in marked contrast to cortical pyramidal cells, whi...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Englitz B,Stiefel KM,Sejnowski TJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchronized firings in the networks of class 1 excitable neurons with excitatory and inhibitory connections are investigated, and their dependences on the forms of interactions are analyzed. As the forms of interactions, we treat the double exponential coupling and the interactions derived from it: pulse coupling, ex...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Kanamaru T,Sekine M

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:Integrate-and-fire neurons are time encoding machines that convert the amplitude of an analog signal into a nonuniform, strictly increasing sequence of spike times. Under certain conditions, the encoded signals can be reconstructed from the nonuniform spike time sequences using a time decoding machine. Time encoding a...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Florescu D,Coca D

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study active learning (AL) based on gaussian processes (GPs) for efficiently enumerating all of the local minimum solutions of a black-box function. This problem is challenging because local solutions are characterized by their zero gradient and positive-definite Hessian properties, but those derivatives cannot be ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Inatsu Y,Sugita D,Toyoura K,Takeuchi I

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binocular fusion takes place over a limited region smaller than one degree of visual angle (Panum's fusional area), which is on the order of the range of preferred disparities measured in populations of disparity-tuned neurons in the visual cortex. However, the actual range of binocular disparities encountered in natu...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Tsang EK,Shi BE

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This letter deals with neural networks as dynamical systems governed by finite difference equations. It shows that the introduction of k -many skip connections into network architectures, such as residual networks and additive dense n...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Hauser M,Gunn S,Saab S Jr,Ray A

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We derive a synaptic weight update rule for learning temporally precise spike train-to-spike train transformations in multilayer feedforward networks of spiking neurons. The framework, aimed at seamlessly generalizing error backpropagation to the deterministic spiking neuron setting, is based strictly on spike timing ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Banerjee A

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the expressive power of positive neural networks. The model uses positive connection weights and multiple input neurons. Different behaviors can be expressed by varying the connection weights. We show that in discrete time and in the absence of noise, the class of positive neural networks captures the so-call...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Ameloot TJ,Van den Bussche J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00