Neural Circuits Trained with Standard Reinforcement Learning Can Accumulate Probabilistic Information during Decision Making.

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

abstract：:In this letter, we perform a complete and in-depth analysis of Lorentzian noises, such as those arising from [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] channel kinetics, in order to identify the source of [Formula: see text]-type noise in neurological membranes. We prove that the autocovariance of Lorentzian noise de...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Paris A,Vosoughi A,Berman SA,Atia G

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary visual cortical complex cells are thought to serve as invariant feature detectors and to provide input to higher cortical areas. We propose a single model for learning the connectivity required by complex cells that integrates two factors that have been hypothesized to play a role in the development of invaria...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Chandrapala TN,Shi BE

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss robustness against mislabeling in multiclass labels for classification problems and propose two algorithms of boosting, the normalized Eta-Boost.M and Eta-Boost.M, based on the Eta-divergence. Those two boosting algorithms are closely related to models of mislabeling in which the label is erroneously exchan...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Takenouchi T,Eguchi S,Murata N,Kanamori T

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories of learning and generalization hold that the generalization bias, defined as the difference between the training error and the generalization error, increases on average with the number of adaptive parameters. This article, however, shows that this general tendency is violated for a gaussian mixture model. Fo...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Akaho S,Kappen HJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：:Activities of sensory-specific cortices are known to be suppressed when presented with a different sensory modality stimulus. This is referred to as cross-modal inhibition, for which the conventional synaptic mechanism is unlikely to work. Interestingly, the cross-modal inhibition could be eliminated when presented wi...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Hoshino O

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:For any memoryless communication channel with a binary-valued input and a one-dimensional real-valued output, we introduce a probabilistic lower bound on the mutual information given empirical observations on the channel. The bound is built on the Dvoretzky-Kiefer-Wolfowitz inequality and is distribution free. A quadr...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： VanderKraats ND,Banerjee A

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A spiking neuron "computes" by transforming a complex dynamical input into a train of action potentials, or spikes. The computation performed by the neuron can be formulated as dimensional reduction, or feature detection, followed by a nonlinear decision function over the low-dimensional space. Generalizations of the ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Agüera y Arcas B,Fairhall AL,Bialek W

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:We derive analytically the solution for the output rate of the ideal coincidence detector. The solution is for an arbitrary number of input spike trains with identical binomial count distributions (which includes Poisson statistics as a special case) and identical arbitrary pairwise cross-correlations, from zero corre...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Mikula S,Niebur E

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：:Due to many experimental reports of synchronous neural activity in the brain, there is much interest in understanding synchronization in networks of neural oscillators and its potential for computing perceptual organization. Contrary to Hopfield and Herz (1995), we find that networks of locally coupled integrate-and-f...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Campbell SR,Wang DL,Jayaprakash C

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：:A modular, recurrent connectionist network is taught to incrementally parse complex sentences. From input presented one word at a time, the network learns to do semantic role assignment, noun phrase attachment, and clause structure recognition, for sentences with both active and passive constructions and center-embedd...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Jain AN

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most conventional policy gradient reinforcement learning (PGRL) algorithms neglect (or do not explicitly make use of) a term in the average reward gradient with respect to the policy parameter. That term involves the derivative of the stationary state distribution that corresponds to the sensitivity of its distributio...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Morimura T,Uchibe E,Yoshimoto J,Peters J,Doya K

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correlated neural activity has been observed at various signal levels (e.g., spike count, membrane potential, local field potential, EEG, fMRI BOLD). Most of these signals can be considered as superpositions of spike trains filtered by components of the neural system (synapses, membranes) and the measurement process. ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Tetzlaff T,Rotter S,Stark E,Abeles M,Aertsen A,Diesmann M

更新日期：2008-09-01 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 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 investigate the approximation ability of a multilayer perceptron (MLP) network when it is extended to the complex domain. The main challenge for processing complex data with neural networks has been the lack of bounded and analytic complex nonlinear activation functions in the complex domain, as stated by Liouville...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Kim T,Adali T

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In pattern recognition, data integration is an important issue, and when properly done, it can lead to improved performance. Also, data integration can be used to help model and understand multimodal processing in the brain. Amari proposed α-integration as a principled way of blending multiple positive measures (e.g.,...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Choi H,Choi S,Choe Y

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This letter proposes a multichannel source separation technique, the multichannel variational autoencoder (MVAE) method, which uses a conditional VAE (CVAE) to model and estimate the power spectrograms of the sources in a mixture. By training the CVAE using the spectrograms of training examples with source-class label...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Kameoka H,Li L,Inoue S,Makino S

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decision making is a complex task, and its underlying mechanisms that regulate behavior, such as the implementation of the coupling between physiological states and neural networks, are hard to decipher. To gain more insight into neural computations underlying ongoing binary decision-making tasks, we consider a neural...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Bose T,Reina A,Marshall JAR

更新日期：2019-05-01 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