Spiking neural P systems with a generalized use of rules.

abstract：:We examined how the depression of intracortical inhibition due to a reduction in ambient GABA concentration impairs perceptual information processing in schizophrenia. A neural network model with a gliotransmission-mediated ambient GABA regulatory mechanism was simulated. In the network, interneuron-to-glial-cell and ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Hoshino O

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：: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 show how a Hopfield network with modifiable recurrent connections undergoing slow Hebbian learning can extract the underlying geometry of an input space. First, we use a slow and fast analysis to derive an averaged system whose dynamics derives from an energy function and therefore always converges to equilibrium p...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Galtier MN,Faugeras OD,Bressloff PC

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a system for the automatic interpretation of cluttered scenes containing multiple partly occluded objects in front of unknown, complex backgrounds. The system is based on an extended elastic graph matching algorithm that allows the explicit modeling of partial occlusions. Our approach extends an earlier sys...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Eckes C,Triesch J,von der Malsburg C

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans have the ability to learn novel motor tasks while manipulating the environment. Several models of motor learning have been proposed in the literature, but few of them address the problem of retention and interference of motor memory. The modular selection and identification for control (MOSAIC) model, originall...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Lonini L,Dipietro L,Zollo L,Guglielmelli E,Krebs HI

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new time-organized map (TOM) is presented for a better understanding of the self-organization and geometric structure of cortical signal representations. The algorithm extends the common self-organizing map (SOM) from the processing of purely spatial signals to the processing of spatiotemporal signals. The main ad...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Wiemer JC

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of designing input signals for optimal generalization is called active learning. In this article, we give a two-stage sampling scheme for reducing both the bias and variance, and based on this scheme, we propose two active learning methods. One is the multipoint search method applicable to arbitrary models...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Sugiyama M,Ogawa H

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent neural architectures having oscillatory dynamics use rhythmic network activity to represent patterns stored in short-term memory. Multiple stored patterns can be retained in memory over the same neural substrate because the network's state persistently switches between them. Here we present a simple oscillat...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Winder RK,Reggia JA,Weems SA,Bunting MF

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article studies a general theory of estimating functions of independent component analysis when the independent source signals are temporarily correlated. Estimating functions are used for deriving both batch and on-line learning algorithms, and they are applicable to blind cases where spatial and temporal probab...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Amari S

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that reactivation of previously acquired experiences or stored information in declarative memories in the hippocampus and neocortex contributes to memory consolidation and learning. Understanding memory consolidation depends crucially on the development of robust statistical methods for assessing...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Liu S,Grosmark AD,Chen Z

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different analytical expressions for the membrane potential distribution of membranes subject to synaptic noise have been proposed and can be very helpful in analyzing experimental data. However, all of these expressions are either approximations or limit cases, and it is not clear how they compare and which expressio...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Rudolph M,Destexhe A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of coherent oscillations in various frequency ranges in the central nervous system raises the question of the mechanisms that synchronize large populations of neurons. We study synchronization in models of large networks of spiking neurons with random sparse connectivity. Synchrony occurs only when the ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Golomb D,Hansel D

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a modular reinforcement learning architecture for nonlinear, nonstationary control tasks, which we call multiple model-based reinforcement learning (MMRL). The basic idea is to decompose a complex task into multiple domains in space and time based on the predictability of the environmental dynamics. The sys...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Doya K,Samejima K,Katagiri K,Kawato M

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：:Previous work on analog VLSI implementation of multilayer perceptrons with on-chip learning has mainly targeted the implementation of algorithms like backpropagation. Although backpropagation is efficient, its implementation in analog VLSI requires excessive computational hardware. In this paper we show that, for anal...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Jabri M,Flower B

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in GABA modulation may underlie experimentally observed changes in the strength of synaptic transmission at different phases of the theta rhythm (Wyble, Linster, & Hasselmo, 1997). Analysis demonstrates that these changes improve sequence disambiguation by a neural network model of CA3. We show that in the fra...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Sohal VS,Hasselmo ME

更新日期：1998-05-15 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：:Intracortical brain computer interfaces can enable individuals with paralysis to control external devices through voluntarily modulated brain activity. Decoding quality has been previously shown to degrade with signal nonstationarities-specifically, the changes in the statistics of the data between training and testin...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Brandman DM,Burkhart MC,Kelemen J,Franco B,Harrison MT,Hochberg LR

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disparity tuning of visual cells in the brain depends on the structure of their binocular receptive fields (RFs). Freeman and coworkers have found that binocular RFs of a typical simple cell can be quantitatively described by two Gabor functions with the same gaussian envelope but different phase parameters in the sin...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Zhu YD,Qian N

更新日期：1996-11-15 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：: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：:Tangential neurons in the fly brain are sensitive to the typical optic flow patterns generated during egomotion. In this study, we examine whether a simplified linear model based on the organization principles in tangential neurons can be used to estimate egomotion from the optic flow. We present a theory for the cons...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Franz MO,Chahl JS,Krapp HG

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：:We formulate an equivalence between machine learning and the formulation of statistical data assimilation as used widely in physical and biological sciences. The correspondence is that layer number in a feedforward artificial network setting is the analog of time in the data assimilation setting. This connection has b...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Abarbanel HDI,Rozdeba PJ,Shirman S

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of synaptic input is crucial for understanding synaptic integration and ultimately neural function. However, in vivo, the rates at which synaptic inputs arrive are high, so that it is typically impossible to detect single events. We show here that it is nevertheless possible to extract the properties of the ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Puggioni P,Jelitai M,Duguid I,van Rossum MCW

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：:Bursting plays an important role in neural communication. At the population level, macroscopic bursting has been identified in populations of neurons that do not express intrinsic bursting mechanisms. For the analysis of phase transitions between bursting and non-bursting states, mean-field descriptions of macroscopic...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Gast R,Schmidt H,Knösche TR

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple associationist neural network learns to factor abstract rules (i.e., grammars) from sequences of arbitrary input symbols by inventing abstract representations that accommodate unseen symbol sets as well as unseen but similar grammars. The neural network is shown to have the ability to transfer grammatical kno...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Hanson SJ,Negishi M

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We perform a detailed fixed-point analysis of two-unit recurrent neural networks with sigmoid-shaped transfer functions. Using geometrical arguments in the space of transfer function derivatives, we partition the network state-space into distinct regions corresponding to stability types of the fixed points. Unlike in ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Tino P,Horne BG,Giles CL

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00