abstract：:Trajectories in human aimed movements are inherently variable. Using the concept of positional variance profiles, such trajectories are shown to be decomposable into two phases: In a first phase, the variance of the limb position over many trajectories increases rapidly; in a second phase, it then decreases steadily. ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gori J,Rioul O

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of power in different frequency bands of the electroencephalogram (EEG) carries information about the behavioral state of a subject. Hence, neurologists treating epileptic patients monitor the temporal evolution of the different bands. We propose a covariance-based method to detect and characterize epilepti...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Maidana Capitán M,Cámpora N,Sigvard CS,Kochen S,Samengo I

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simulations of neural activity are commonly based on differential equations. We address the question what can be achieved with a simplified discrete model. The proposed model resembles artificial neural networks enriched with additional biologically inspired features. A neuron has several states, and the state transit...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bazenkov NI,Boldyshev BA,Dyakonova V,Kuznetsov OP

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information about time-dependent sensory stimuli is encoded in the activity of neural populations; distinct aspects of the stimulus are read out by different types of neurons: while overall information is perceived by integrator cells, so-called coincidence detector cells are driven mainly by the synchronous activity ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bostner Ž,Knoll G,Lindner B

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A powerful technique for the analysis of nonlinear oscillators is the rigorous reduction to phase models, with a single variable describing the phase of the oscillation with respect to some reference state. An analog to phase reduction has recently been proposed for systems with a stable fixed point, and phase reducti...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Monga B,Wilson D,Matchen T,Moehlis J

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small inhibitory neuronal circuits have long been identified as key neuronal motifs to generate and modulate the coexisting rhythms of various motor functions. Our paper highlights the role of a cellular switching mechanism to orchestrate such circuits. The cellular switch makes the circuits reconfigurable, robust, ad...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Drion G,Franci A,Sepulchre R

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spikes in the membrane potential of neurons comprise the currency of information processing in the brain. The ability of neurons to convert any information present across their multiple inputs into a significant modification to the pattern of their emitted spikes depends on the rate at which they emit spikes. If the m...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Miller P,Cannon J

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a novel optimal control algorithm to change the phase of an oscillator using a minimum energy input, which also minimizes the oscillator's transversal distance to the uncontrolled periodic orbit. Our algorithm uses a two-dimensional reduction technique based on both isochrons and isostables. We develop a no...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Monga B,Moehlis J

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyze the effect of weak-noise-induced transitions on the dynamics of the FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron model in a bistable state consisting of a stable fixed point and a stable unforced limit cycle. Bifurcation and slow-fast analysis give conditions on the parameter space for the establishment of this bi-stability. In ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Yamakou ME,Jost J

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonlinear oscillators are usually utilized by bionic scientists for establishing central pattern generator models for imitating rhythmic motions by bionic scientists. In the natural word, many rhythmic motions possess asymmetric time ratios, which means that the forward and the backward motions of an oscillating proce...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Fu Q,Wang DH,Xu L,Yuan G

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most robot navigation systems perform place recognition using a single-sensor modality and one, or at most two heterogeneous map scales. In contrast, mammals perform navigation by combining sensing from a wide variety of modalities including vision, auditory, olfactory and tactile senses with a multi-scale, homogeneou...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Jacobson A,Chen Z,Milford M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the seminal works of Bernstein (The coordination and regulation of movements. Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1967) several authors have supported the idea that, to produce a goal-oriented movement in general, and a movement of the organs responsible for the production of speech sounds in particular, individuals activat...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lancia L,Rosenbaum B

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conductance-based refractory density (CBRD) approach is an efficient tool for modeling interacting neuronal populations. The model describes the firing activity of a statistical ensemble of uncoupled Hodgkin-Huxley-like neurons, each receiving individual Gaussian noise and a common time-varying deterministic input...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Chizhov AV

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-unit recordings suggest that the midbrain superior colliculus (SC) acts as an optimal controller for saccadic gaze shifts. The SC is proposed to be the site within the visuomotor system where the nonlinear spatial-to-temporal transformation is carried out: the population encodes the intended saccade vector by i...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kasap B,van Opstal AJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vision typically has better spatial accuracy and precision than audition and as a result often captures auditory spatial perception when visual and auditory cues are presented together. One determinant of visual capture is the amount of spatial disparity between auditory and visual cues: when disparity is small, visua...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bosen AK,Fleming JT,Brown SE,Allen PD,O'Neill WE,Paige GD

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapidly adapting (RA) currents expressed in dorsal root ganglia somatosensory neurons reduce their amplitude in response to prolonged and/or repeated mechanical stimulation. Both inactivation of mechanotransducer channels and adaptation of the force acting on the channels have been suggested to independently decrease ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Prešern J,Škorjanc A,Rodič T,Benda J

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ICE stands for internally coupled ears. More than half of the terrestrial vertebrates, such as frogs, lizards, and birds, as well as many insects, are equipped with ICE that utilize an air-filled cavity connecting the two eardrums. Its effect is pronounced and twofold. On the basis of a solid experimental and mathemat...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： van Hemmen JL,Christensen-Dalsgaard J,Carr CE,Narins PM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally held that the right and left middle ears of mammals are acoustically isolated from each other, such that mammals must rely on neural computation to derive sound localisation cues. There are, however, some unusual species in which the middle ear cavities intercommunicate, in which case each ear might be...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mason MJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peripheral auditory system of lizards has been extensively studied, because of its remarkable directionality. In this paper, we review the research that has been performed on this system using a biorobotic approach. The various robotic implementations developed to date, both wheeled and legged, of the auditory mod...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Shaikh D,Hallam J,Christensen-Dalsgaard J

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared to all other hearing animals, insects are the smallest ones, both in absolute terms and in relation to the wavelength of most biologically relevant sounds. The ears of insects can be located at almost any possible body part, such as wings, legs, mouthparts, thorax or abdomen. The interaural distances are gene...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Römer H,Schmidt AK

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In internally coupled ears (ICE), the displacement of one eardrum creates pressure waves that propagate through air-filled passages in the skull, causing a displacement of the opposing eardrum and vice versa. In this review, a thorough mathematical analysis of the membranes, passages, and propagating pressure waves re...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Vedurmudi AP,Young BA,van Hemmen JL

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides an introductory overview of the state of research on Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling in cognitive development. First, a brief historical summary and a definition of hierarchies in Bayesian modeling are given. Subsequently, some model structures are described based on four examples in the literatur...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Glassen T,Nitsch V

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical properties of spike trains as well as other neurophysiological data suggest a number of mathematical models of neurons. These models range from entirely descriptive ones to those deduced from the properties of the real neurons. One of them, the diffusion leaky integrate-and-fire neuronal model, which is ba...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lansky P,Sacerdote L,Zucca C

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current research, the muscle equivalent linear damping coefficient which is introduced as the force-velocity relation in a muscle model and the corresponding time constant are investigated. In order to reach this goal, a 1D skeletal muscle model was used. Two characterizations of this model using a linear force...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Ovesy M,Nazari MA,Mahdavian M

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper deals with characterization and modelling of human handwriting motion from two forearm muscle activity signals, called electromyography signals (EMG). In this work, an experimental approach was used to record the coordinates of a pen tip moving on the (x, y) plane and EMG signals during the handwriting act....

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Chihi I,Abdelkrim A,Benrejeb M

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons transmit information as action potentials or spikes. Due to the inherent randomness of the inter-spike intervals (ISIs), probabilistic models are often used for their description. Cumulative damage (CD) distributions are a family of probabilistic models that has been widely considered for describing time-relat...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Leiva V,Tejo M,Guiraud P,Schmachtenberg O,Orio P,Marmolejo-Ramos F

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A signal-tuned approach has been recently introduced for modeling stimulus-dependent cortical receptive fields. The approach is based on signal-tuned Gabor functions, which are Gaussian-modulated sinusoids whose parameters are obtained from a "tuning" signal. Given a stimulus to a cell, it is taken as the tuning signa...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Torreão JR

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Walking behavior is modulated by controlling joint torques in most existing passivity-based bipeds. Controlled Passive Walking with adaptable stiffness exhibits controllable natural motions and energy efficient gaits. In this paper, we propose torque-stiffness-controlled dynamic bipedal walking, which extends the conc...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Huang Y,Vanderborght B,Van Ham R,Wang Q

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider a general integrate-and-fire (IF) neuron driven by asymmetric dichotomous noise. In contrast to the Gaussian white noise usually used in the so-called diffusion approximation, this noise is colored, i.e., it exhibits temporal correlations. We give an analytical expression for the stationary voltage distrib...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Droste F,Lindner B

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article analyzes the question of whether neuroscience allows for mathematical descriptions and whether an interaction between experimental and theoretical neuroscience can be expected to benefit both of them. It is argued that a mathematization of natural phenomena never happens by itself. First, appropriate key ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： van Hemmen JL

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive theory has decomposed human mental abilities into cognitive (sub) systems, and cognitive neuroscience succeeded in disclosing a host of relationships between cognitive systems and specific structures of the human brain. However, an explanation of why specific functions are located in specific brain loci had ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Pulvermüller F,Garagnani M,Wennekers T

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to obtain information on the axonal diameters of cortico-cortical fibres in the human brain, connecting distant regions of the same hemisphere via the white matter. Samples for electron microscopy were taken from the region of the superior longitudinal fascicle and from the transitional white...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Liewald D,Miller R,Logothetis N,Wagner HJ,Schüz A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article compiles an expose of Valentino Braitenberg's singular view on neuroanatomy and neuroscience. The review emphasizes his topologically informed work on neuroanatomy and his dialectics of brain-based explanations of motor behavior. Some of his early ideas on topologically informed neuroanatomy are presented...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Negrello M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent results demonstrate techniques for fully quantitative, statistical inference of the dynamics of individual neurons under the Hodgkin-Huxley framework of voltage-gated conductances. Using a variational approximation, this approach has been successfully applied to simulated data from model neurons. Here, we use t...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Meliza CD,Kostuk M,Huang H,Nogaret A,Margoliash D,Abarbanel HD

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we present a neurologically motivated computational architecture for visual information processing. The computational architecture's focus lies in multiple strategies: hierarchical processing, parallel and concurrent processing, and modularity. The architecture is modular and expandable in both hardwa...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Holzbach A,Cheng G

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimating the behavior of a network of neurons requires accurate models of the individual neurons along with accurate characterizations of the connections among them. Whereas for a single cell, measurements of the intracellular voltage are technically feasible and sufficient to characterize a useful model of its beha...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Knowlton C,Meliza CD,Margoliash D,Abarbanel HD

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, a great deal of research within the field of sound localization has been aimed at finding the acoustic cues that human listeners use to localize sounds and understanding the mechanisms by which they process these cues. In this paper, we propose a complementary approach by constructing an ideal-observe...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Reijniers J,Vanderelst D,Jin C,Carlile S,Peremans H

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are two issues in balancing a stick pivoting on a finger tip (or mechanically on a moving cart): maintaining the stick angle near to vertical and maintaining the horizontal position within the bounds of reach or cart track. The (linearised) dynamics of the angle are second order (although driven by pivot acceler...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gawthrop P,Lee KY,Halaki M,O'Dwyer N

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A receptive field constitutes a region in the visual field where a visual cell or a visual operator responds to visual stimuli. This paper presents a theory for what types of receptive field profiles can be regarded as natural for an idealized vision system, given a set of structural requirements on the first stages o...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lindeberg T

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary transition from water to land required new locomotor modes and corresponding adjustments of the spinal "central pattern generators" for locomotion. Salamanders resemble the first terrestrial tetrapods and represent a key animal for the study of these changes. Based on recent physiological data from sa...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bicanski A,Ryczko D,Cabelguen JM,Ijspeert AJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00