A Resource-Allocating Network for Function Interpolation.

abstract：:An iterative reweighted least squares (IRWLS) procedure recently proposed is shown to converge to the support vector machine solution. The convergence to a stationary point is ensured by modifying the original IRWLS procedure. ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Pérez-Cruz F,Bousoño-Calzón C,Artés-Rodríguez A

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Recent studies have employed simple linear dynamical systems to model trial-by-trial dynamics in various sensorimotor learning tasks. Here we explore the theoretical and practical considerations that arise when employing the general class of linear dynamical systems (LDS) as a model for sensorimotor learning. In this ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Cheng S,Sabes PN

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) presents a significant health concern with potential persisting deficits that can last decades. Although a growing body of literature improves our understanding of the brain network response and corresponding underlying cellular alterations after injury, the effects of cellular disru...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Gabrieli D,Schumm SN,Vigilante NF,Meaney DF

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：:Neural associative memories are perceptron-like single-layer networks with fast synaptic learning typically storing discrete associations between pairs of neural activity patterns. Previous work optimized the memory capacity for various models of synaptic learning: linear Hopfield-type rules, the Willshaw model employ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Knoblauch A

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：: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：: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：:The past decade has seen a rise of interest in Laplacian eigenmaps (LEMs) for nonlinear dimensionality reduction. LEMs have been used in spectral clustering, in semisupervised learning, and for providing efficient state representations for reinforcement learning. Here, we show that LEMs are closely related to slow fea...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Sprekeler H

更新日期：2011-12-01 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 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 "Isotropic Sequence Order Learning" (pp. 831-864 in this issue), we introduced a novel algorithm for temporal sequence learning (ISO learning). Here, we embed this algorithm into a formal nonevaluating (teacher free) environment, which establishes a sensor-motor feedback. The system is initially guided by a fixed r...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Porr B,von Ferber C,Wörgötter F

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：:We present a new supervised learning procedure for ensemble machines, in which outputs of predictors, trained on different distributions, are combined by a dynamic classifier combination model. This procedure may be viewed as either a version of mixture of experts (Jacobs, Jordan, Nowlan, & Hintnon, 1991), applied to ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Avnimelech R,Intrator N

更新日期：1999-02-15 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 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：: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：:A general method is presented to classify temporal patterns generated by rhythmic biological networks when synaptic connections and cellular properties are known. The method is discrete in nature and relies on algebraic properties of state transitions and graph theory. Elements of the set of rhythms generated by a net...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Roberts PD

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A minimal model is presented to explain changes in frequency, shape, and amplitude of Ca2+ oscillations in the neuroendocrine melanotrope cell of Xenopus Laevis. It describes the cell as a plasma membrane oscillator with influx of extracellular Ca2+ via voltage-gated Ca2+ channels in the plasma membrane. The Ca2+ osci...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Cornelisse LN,Scheenen WJ,Koopman WJ,Roubos EW,Gielen SC

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:A conductance-based model of Na+ and K+ currents underlying action potential generation is introduced by simplifying the quantitative model of Hodgkin and Huxley (HH). If the time course of rate constants can be approximated by a pulse, HH equations can be solved analytically. Pulse-based (PB) models generate action p...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Destexhe A

更新日期：1997-04-01 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：:The role of correlations between neuronal responses is crucial to understanding the neural code. A framework used to study this role comprises a breakdown of the mutual information between stimuli and responses into terms that aim to account for different coding modalities and the distinction between different notions...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Chicharro D

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:Temporal coding is studied for an oscillatory neural network model with synchronization and acceleration. The latter mechanism refers to increasing (decreasing) the phase velocity of each unit for stronger (weaker) or more coherent (decoherent) input from the other units. It has been demonstrated that acceleration gen...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Burwick T

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:We consider the effect of the effective timing of a delayed feedback on the excitatory neuron in a recurrent inhibitory loop, when biological realities of firing and absolute refractory period are incorporated into a phenomenological spiking linear or quadratic integrate-and-fire neuron model. We show that such models...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Ma J,Wu J

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of synchrony in the activity of large, heterogeneous networks of spiking neurons is investigated. We define the robustness of synchrony by the critical disorder at which the asynchronous state becomes linearly unstable. We show that at low firing rates, synchrony is more robust in excitatory networks tha...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Neltner L,Hansel D,Mato G,Meunier C

更新日期：2000-07-01 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