abstract：:A necessary ingredient for a quantitative theory of neural coding is appropriate "spike kinematics": a precise description of spike trains. While summarizing experiments by complete spike time collections is clearly inefficient and probably unnecessary, the most common probabilistic model used in neurophysiology, the ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Wójcik DK,Mochol G,Jakuczun W,Wypych M,Waleszczyk WJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：: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：:Current research on discrete and rhythmic movements differs in both experimental procedures and theory, despite the ubiquitous overlap between discrete and rhythmic components in everyday behaviors. Models of rhythmic movements usually use oscillatory systems mimicking central pattern generators (CPGs). In contrast, m...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Ronsse R,Sternad D,Lefèvre P

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experimental findings have shown the presence of robust and cell-type-specific intraburst firing patterns in bursting neurons. We address the problem of characterizing these patterns under the assumption that the bursts exhibit well-defined firing time distributions. We propose a method for estimating these dis...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Lago-Fernández LF,Szücs A,Varona P

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:The important task of generating the minimum number of sequential triangle strips (tristrips) for a given triangulated surface model is motivated by applications in computer graphics. This hard combinatorial optimization problem is reduced to the minimum energy problem in Hopfield nets by a linear-size construction. I...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Síma J,Lnĕnicka R

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Nyström method is a well-known sampling-based technique for approximating the eigensystem of large kernel matrices. However, the chosen samples in the Nyström method are all assumed to be of equal importance, which deviates from the integral equation that defines the kernel eigenfunctions. Motivated by this observ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Zhang K,Kwok JT

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In signal restoration by Bayesian inference, one typically uses a parametric model of the prior distribution of the signal. Here, we consider how the parameters of a prior model should be estimated from observations of uncorrupted signals. A lot of recent work has implicitly assumed that maximum likelihood estimation ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Hyvärinen A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a model for the neural integrator based on hysteretic units connected by positive feedback. Hysteresis is assumed to emerge from the intrinsic properties of the cells. We consider the recurrent networks containing either bistable or multistable neurons. We apply our analysis to the oculomotor velocity-...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Nikitchenko M,Koulakov A

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：: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：:A fast and accurate computational scheme for simulating nonlinear dynamic systems is presented. The scheme assumes that the system can be represented by a combination of components of only two different types: first-order low-pass filters and static nonlinearities. The parameters of these filters and nonlinearities ma...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： van Hateren JH

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：: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：:A mathematical model, of general character for the dynamic description of coupled neural oscillators is presented. The population approach that is employed applies equally to coupled cells as to populations of such coupled cells. The formulation includes stochasticity and preserves details of precisely firing neurons....

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Sirovich L

更新日期：2008-05-01 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 explicitly analyze the trajectories of learning near singularities in hierarchical networks, such as multilayer perceptrons and radial basis function networks, which include permutation symmetry of hidden nodes, and show their general properties. Such symmetry induces singularities in their parameter space, where t...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Wei H,Zhang J,Cousseau F,Ozeki T,Amari S

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:The perceptron (also referred to as McCulloch-Pitts neuron, or linear threshold gate) is commonly used as a simplified model for the discrimination and learning capability of a biological neuron. Criteria that tell us when a perceptron can implement (or learn to implement) all possible dichotomies over a given set of ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Legenstein R,Maass W

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Izhikevich (2003) proposed a new canonical neuron model of spike generation. The model was surprisingly simple yet able to accurately replicate the firing patterns of different types of cortical cell. Here, we derive a solution method that allows efficient simulation of the model. ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Humphries MD,Gurney K

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:We study the effect of competition between short-term synaptic depression and facilitation on the dynamic properties of attractor neural networks, using Monte Carlo simulation and a mean-field analysis. Depending on the balance of depression, facilitation, and the underlying noise, the network displays different behav...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Torres JJ,Cortes JM,Marro J,Kappen HJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：: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：:Inspired by recent studies regarding dendritic computation, we constructed a recurrent neural network model incorporating dendritic lateral inhibition. Our model consists of an input layer and a neuron layer that includes excitatory cells and an inhibitory cell; this inhibitory cell is activated by the pooled activiti...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Morita K,Okada M,Aihara K

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to achieve high swimming speed and efficiency is very important to both the real lamprey and its robotic implementation. In previous studies, we used evolutionary algorithms to evolve biologically plausible connectionist swimming controllers for a simulated lamprey. This letter investigates the robustness ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Or J

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：: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：:GABAergic synapse reversal potential is controlled by the concentration of chloride. This concentration can change significantly during development and as a function of neuronal activity. Thus, GABA inhibition can be hyperpolarizing, shunting, or partially depolarizing. Previous results pinpointed the conditions under...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Jeong HY,Gutkin B

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncertainty coming from the noise in its neurons and the ill-posed nature of many tasks plagues neural computations. Maybe surprisingly, many studies show that the brain manipulates these forms of uncertainty in a probabilistically consistent and normative manner, and there is now a rich theoretical literature on the ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Huys QJ,Zemel RS,Natarajan R,Dayan P

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motion of an object (such as a wheel rotating) is seen as consistent independent of its position and size on the retina. Neurons in higher cortical visual areas respond to these global motion stimuli invariantly, but neurons in early cortical areas with small receptive fields cannot represent this motion, not only...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Rolls ET,Stringer SM

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Volterra and Wiener series are perhaps the best-understood nonlinear system representations in signal processing. Although both approaches have enjoyed a certain popularity in the past, their application has been limited to rather low-dimensional and weakly nonlinear systems due to the exponential growth of the number...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Franz MO,Schölkopf B

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article addresses the topic of extracting logical rules from data by means of artificial neural networks. The approach based on piecewise linear neural networks is revisited, which has already been used for the extraction of Boolean rules in the past, and it is shown that this approach can be important also for t...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Holena M

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We considered a gamma distribution of interspike intervals as a statistical model for neuronal spike generation. A gamma distribution is a natural extension of the Poisson process taking the effect of a refractory period into account. The model is specified by two parameters: a time-dependent firing rate and a shape p...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Miura K,Okada M,Amari S

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Event-driven simulation strategies were proposed recently to simulate integrate-and-fire (IF) type neuronal models. These strategies can lead to computationally efficient algorithms for simulating large-scale networks of neurons; most important, such approaches are more precise than traditional clock-driven numerical ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Rudolph M,Destexhe A

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：:Experimental studies of reasoning and planned behavior have provided evidence that nervous systems use internal models to perform predictive motor control, imagery, inference, and planning. Classical (model-free) reinforcement learning approaches omit such a model; standard sensorimotor models account for forward and ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Toussaint M

更新日期：2006-05-01 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