Robustness of connectionist swimming controllers against random variation in neural connections.

abstract：:Recent advances in the technology of multiunit recordings make it possible to test Hebb's hypothesis that neurons do not function in isolation but are organized in assemblies. This has created the need for statistical approaches to detecting the presence of spatiotemporal patterns of more than two neurons in neuron sp...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Martignon L,Deco G,Laskey K,Diamond M,Freiwald W,Vaadia E

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently we presented a stochastic, ensemble-based model of spike-timing-dependent plasticity. In this model, single synapses do not exhibit plasticity depending on the exact timing of pre- and postsynaptic spikes, but spike-timing-dependent plasticity emerges only at the temporal or synaptic ensemble level. We showed...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Appleby PA,Elliott T

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:For the paradigmatic case of bimanual coordination, we review levels of organization of behavioral dynamics and present a description in terms of modes of behavior. We briefly review a recently developed model of spatiotemporal brain activity that is based on short- and long-range connectivity of neural ensembles. Thi...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Jirsa VK,Fuchs A,Kelso JA

更新日期：1998-11-15 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 hierarchical dynamical map is proposed as the basic framework for sensory cortical mapping. To show how the hierarchical dynamical map works in cognitive processes, we applied it to a typical cognitive task known as priming, in which cognitive performance is facilitated as a consequence of prior experience. Prior to...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Hoshino O,Inoue S,Kashimori Y,Kambara T

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents a reinforcement learning framework for continuous-time dynamical systems without a priori discretization of time, state, and action. Based on the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation for infinite-horizon, discounted reward problems, we derive algorithms for estimating value functions and improv...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Doya K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this letter, a standard postnonlinear blind source separation algorithm is proposed, based on the MISEP method, which is widely used in linear and nonlinear independent component analysis. To best suit a wide class of postnonlinear mixtures, we adapt the MISEP method to incorporate a priori information of the mixtu...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Zheng CH,Huang DS,Li K,Irwin G,Sun ZL

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents a new theoretical framework to consider the dynamics of a stochastic spiking neuron model with general membrane response to input spike. We assume that the input spikes obey an inhomogeneous Poisson process. The stochastic process of the membrane potential then becomes a gaussian process. When a ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Amemori KI,Ishii S

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One standard interpretation of networks of cortical neurons is that they form dynamical attractors. Computations such as stimulus estimation are performed by mapping inputs to points on the networks' attractive manifolds. These points represent population codes for the stimulus values. However, this standard interpret...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Moazzezi R,Dayan P

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose that replication (with mutation) of patterns of neuronal activity can occur within the brain using known neurophysiological processes. Thereby evolutionary algorithms implemented by neuro- nal circuits can play a role in cognition. Replication of structured neuronal representations is assumed in several cog...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Fernando C,Goldstein R,Szathmáry E

更新日期：2010-11-01 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 article reviews statistical techniques for combining multiple probability distributions. The framework is that of a decision maker who consults several experts regarding some events. The experts express their opinions in the form of probability distributions. The decision maker must aggregate the experts' distrib...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Jacobs RA

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant of spiking neural P systems with positive or negative weights on synapses is introduced, where the rules of a neuron fire when the potential of that neuron equals a given value. The involved values-weights, firing thresholds, potential consumed by each rule-can be real (computable) numbers, rational numbers,...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Wang J,Hoogeboom HJ,Pan L,Păun G,Pérez-Jiménez MJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrate-and-express models of synaptic plasticity propose that synapses integrate plasticity induction signals before expressing synaptic plasticity. By discerning trends in their induction signals, synapses can control destabilizing fluctuations in synaptic strength. In a feedforward perceptron framework with binar...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Elliott T

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:In this article, a biologically plausible and efficient object recognition system (called ORASSYLL) is introduced, based on a set of a priori constraints motivated by findings of developmental psychology and neurophysiology. These constraints are concerned with the organization of the input in local and corresponding ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Krüger N

更新日期：2001-02-01 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：:In this review, we compare methods for temporal sequence learning (TSL) across the disciplines machine-control, classical conditioning, neuronal models for TSL as well as spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP). This review introduces the most influential models and focuses on two questions: To what degree are reward...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Wörgötter F,Porr B

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a graphical model framework for decoding in the visual ERP-based speller system. The proposed framework allows researchers to build generative models from which the decoding rules are obtained in a straightforward manner. We suggest two models for generating brain signals conditioned on the stimulus events....

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Martens SM,Mooij JM,Hill NJ,Farquhar J,Schölkopf B

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a novel paradigm for spike train decoding, which avoids entirely spike sorting based on waveform measurements. This paradigm directly uses the spike train collected at recording electrodes from thresholding the bandpassed voltage signal. Our approach is a paradigm, not an algorithm, since it can be used wit...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Ventura V

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：:A study of a general central pattern generator (CPG) is carried out by means of a measure of the gain of information between the number of available topology configurations and the output rhythmic activity. The neurons of the CPG are chaotic Hindmarsh-Rose models that cooperate dynamically to generate either chaotic o...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Stiesberg GR,Reyes MB,Varona P,Pinto RD,Huerta R

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ramping neuronal activity refers to spiking activity with a rate that increases quasi-linearly over time. It has been observed in multiple cortical areas and is correlated with evidence accumulation processes or timing. In this work, we investigated the downstream effect of ramping neuronal activity through synapses t...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Wei W,Wang XJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:This article addresses the relationship between long-term reward predictions and slow-timescale neural activity in temporal difference (TD) models of the dopamine system. Such models attempt to explain how the activity of dopamine (DA) neurons relates to errors in the prediction of future rewards. Previous models have...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Daw ND,Touretzky DS

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The free-energy principle is a candidate unified theory for learning and memory in the brain that predicts that neurons, synapses, and neuromodulators work in a manner that minimizes free energy. However, electrophysiological data elucidating the neural and synaptic bases for this theory are lacking. Here, we propose ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Isomura T,Sakai K,Kotani K,Jimbo Y

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling for multiple hypothesis tests using standard spike resampling techniques often requires prohibitive amounts of computation. Importance sampling techniques can be used to accelerate the computation. The general theory is presented, along with specific examples for testing differences across conditions using...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Harrison MT

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this letter, we develop a gaussian process model for clustering. The variances of predictive values in gaussian processes learned from a training data are shown to comprise an estimate of the support of a probability density function. The constructed variance function is then applied to construct a set of contours ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Kim HC,Lee J

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

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