CNS*2004 July 18-22, 2004 Baltimore, Maryland
... Baltimre’s Inner Harbor from Sunday, July 18th to Tuesday, July 20th. Workshops will take place in the hotel as well in smaller meeting rooms equipped with audio visual equipment from Thursday, July 22nd to Friday July 23rd. Maps of the Inner Harbor and surrounding areas are included on the followin ...
... Baltimre’s Inner Harbor from Sunday, July 18th to Tuesday, July 20th. Workshops will take place in the hotel as well in smaller meeting rooms equipped with audio visual equipment from Thursday, July 22nd to Friday July 23rd. Maps of the Inner Harbor and surrounding areas are included on the followin ...
Chordate evolution and the origin of craniates
... elaborated brains with paired sense organs and unique derivatives of neural crest and placodal tissues, including peripheral sensory ganglia, visceral arches, and head skeleton. The craniate sister taxon, cephalochordates, has rostral portions of the neuraxis that are homologous to some of the major ...
... elaborated brains with paired sense organs and unique derivatives of neural crest and placodal tissues, including peripheral sensory ganglia, visceral arches, and head skeleton. The craniate sister taxon, cephalochordates, has rostral portions of the neuraxis that are homologous to some of the major ...
Deciphering a neural code for vision
... and motion of potential mates. The neural code for such objects is not found in ambiguous messages of individual optic nerve fibers but rather in patterns of coherent activity that extend over small ensembles of nerve fibers and are bound together by stimulus motion. Integrative properties of neuron ...
... and motion of potential mates. The neural code for such objects is not found in ambiguous messages of individual optic nerve fibers but rather in patterns of coherent activity that extend over small ensembles of nerve fibers and are bound together by stimulus motion. Integrative properties of neuron ...
3 state neurons for contextual processing
... the slower I Ks potassium current prevents further depolarization. When input ceases, NMDA channels eventually (TNMDA ~ 150ms) close and the membrane jumps to the down-state. Note that while this bistable mechanism is intrinsic to the membrane, it is also conditional upon input. Since the voltage th ...
... the slower I Ks potassium current prevents further depolarization. When input ceases, NMDA channels eventually (TNMDA ~ 150ms) close and the membrane jumps to the down-state. Note that while this bistable mechanism is intrinsic to the membrane, it is also conditional upon input. Since the voltage th ...
Prediction in Human Decision Making
... decision making behavior, concentrating on the role of frontal brain regions which are responsible for predictive control of human behavior. The model was tested in a maze task and the human subjects were asked to do the same task. A group of six volunteers including three men and three women at the ...
... decision making behavior, concentrating on the role of frontal brain regions which are responsible for predictive control of human behavior. The model was tested in a maze task and the human subjects were asked to do the same task. A group of six volunteers including three men and three women at the ...
Trial time warping to discriminate stimulus-related
... The SCT used in this study has been described before (Merchant et al., 2008; Zarco et al., 2009). Briefly, the monkeys were required to push a button each time stimuli with a constant interstimulus interval were presented, which resulted in a stimulus–movement cycle. After four consecutive synchroniz ...
... The SCT used in this study has been described before (Merchant et al., 2008; Zarco et al., 2009). Briefly, the monkeys were required to push a button each time stimuli with a constant interstimulus interval were presented, which resulted in a stimulus–movement cycle. After four consecutive synchroniz ...
Spike-timing-dependent plasticity: common themes
... Miller 1986) leading to rate based learning rules. Markram et al. (1997), however, showed that synapses can be robustly weakened if the presynaptic spike arrived shortly after the postsynaptic spike and that the transition between potentiation and depression is very sharp (Fig. 1B). Later studies co ...
... Miller 1986) leading to rate based learning rules. Markram et al. (1997), however, showed that synapses can be robustly weakened if the presynaptic spike arrived shortly after the postsynaptic spike and that the transition between potentiation and depression is very sharp (Fig. 1B). Later studies co ...
Linear Combinations of Optic Flow Vectors for Estimating Self
... the distances of the currently perceived scene, an appropriate choice of local weights and a large field of view are capable of reducing the influence of noise and the particular scene distances on the estimates. In particular, rotation estimates were highly accurate - in a range comparable to gyros ...
... the distances of the currently perceived scene, an appropriate choice of local weights and a large field of view are capable of reducing the influence of noise and the particular scene distances on the estimates. In particular, rotation estimates were highly accurate - in a range comparable to gyros ...
What do you notice? - Neural Crossroads Laboratory
... Links to behavior and cognitive processes Lesion or inactivation of the medial septum reduce theta oscillations and disrupt learning and spatial navigation: ...
... Links to behavior and cognitive processes Lesion or inactivation of the medial septum reduce theta oscillations and disrupt learning and spatial navigation: ...
Evolutionary Robotics Programming Assignment 10 of 10
... Description: In this final assignment, you will connect the Python application you developed in assignments 1 through 3 with the robot simulator you have created in assignments 4 through 9. When you are done, the two applications will work together as follows: • The Python hill climber will start up ...
... Description: In this final assignment, you will connect the Python application you developed in assignments 1 through 3 with the robot simulator you have created in assignments 4 through 9. When you are done, the two applications will work together as follows: • The Python hill climber will start up ...
Potts Networks – Latching – Correlated patterns
... • The robustness of a memory is inverse to how informative it is (Sf). • In addition, popular neurons affect negatively the general performance (decay of F(x)). • These results show how the current trend in category specific deficits (‘living’ weaker than ‘non living’) could emerge even in a purely ...
... • The robustness of a memory is inverse to how informative it is (Sf). • In addition, popular neurons affect negatively the general performance (decay of F(x)). • These results show how the current trend in category specific deficits (‘living’ weaker than ‘non living’) could emerge even in a purely ...
Inferring spike-timing-dependent plasticity from spike train data
... covariates to decay exponentially with τf . In this form, maximum likelihood estimation along each axis is a log-concave optimization problem [21]. The parameters describing the modification function β w and the parameters describing the stable parts of the model α and β can be estimated by holding ...
... covariates to decay exponentially with τf . In this form, maximum likelihood estimation along each axis is a log-concave optimization problem [21]. The parameters describing the modification function β w and the parameters describing the stable parts of the model α and β can be estimated by holding ...
DISSOCIATION OF TARGET SELECTION AND SACCADE
... Necessity of formal linking propositions • The properties of neurons do not reveal function • Formal (computational) theories of performance explain function • But distinct models cannot be distinguished from behavior testing, e.g., diffusion or race • Properties of neurons might provide constraint ...
... Necessity of formal linking propositions • The properties of neurons do not reveal function • Formal (computational) theories of performance explain function • But distinct models cannot be distinguished from behavior testing, e.g., diffusion or race • Properties of neurons might provide constraint ...
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... histogram-based descriptors, for an example, the SIFT features, show great tolerance to the object transformations but such feature detectors are not complete in the sense that they do not take all useful information while trying to achieve certain invariance using a single type of handcrafted featu ...
... histogram-based descriptors, for an example, the SIFT features, show great tolerance to the object transformations but such feature detectors are not complete in the sense that they do not take all useful information while trying to achieve certain invariance using a single type of handcrafted featu ...
Implications of Polychronous Neuronal Groups for the Nature of Mental Representations
... it is important to understand how they are generated and propagated. An individual neuron remains at its resting potential until it receives, or “observes”, a sufficient number of spikes in a short enough period of time, at which point this coincident input causes the neuron to generate an action po ...
... it is important to understand how they are generated and propagated. An individual neuron remains at its resting potential until it receives, or “observes”, a sufficient number of spikes in a short enough period of time, at which point this coincident input causes the neuron to generate an action po ...
The neural milieu of the developing choroid plexus: neural stem
... The CP constitutes the blood-CSF barrier that is established by the tight junctions of the CP epithelial cells. The CP is a very active organ that continuously secretes CSF from early development throughout life (Johansson et al., 2008; Liddelow et al., 2012; Lehtinen et al., 2013). It has been prop ...
... The CP constitutes the blood-CSF barrier that is established by the tight junctions of the CP epithelial cells. The CP is a very active organ that continuously secretes CSF from early development throughout life (Johansson et al., 2008; Liddelow et al., 2012; Lehtinen et al., 2013). It has been prop ...
From Network Architecture of Forebrain Systems to Brain Wide Web
... their functions (Haber and Behrens, 2014 ). Prof. Haber stressed the importance of comparing functional imaging data obtained in human studies with primate tracing information on corticobasal connectivity, to avoid misinterpretation of imaging data. Detailed analysis of the architecture and organiza ...
... their functions (Haber and Behrens, 2014 ). Prof. Haber stressed the importance of comparing functional imaging data obtained in human studies with primate tracing information on corticobasal connectivity, to avoid misinterpretation of imaging data. Detailed analysis of the architecture and organiza ...
Assessment of forecasting techniques for solar power production
... We evaluate and compare several forecasting techniques using no exogenous inputs for predicting the solar power output of a 1 MWp, single-axis tracking, photovoltaic power plant operating in Merced, California. The production data used in this work corresponds to hourly averaged power collected from ...
... We evaluate and compare several forecasting techniques using no exogenous inputs for predicting the solar power output of a 1 MWp, single-axis tracking, photovoltaic power plant operating in Merced, California. The production data used in this work corresponds to hourly averaged power collected from ...
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... Geometric-optical illusions have been the subjects of research interest in a number of disciplines in science. Moreover, investigation of the patients’ reactions to illusory configurations has been somewhat instrumental in the understanding of impaired neurocognitive processes underlying some of the ...
... Geometric-optical illusions have been the subjects of research interest in a number of disciplines in science. Moreover, investigation of the patients’ reactions to illusory configurations has been somewhat instrumental in the understanding of impaired neurocognitive processes underlying some of the ...
6 BIO Neurotransmitters - Appoquinimink High School
... With threshold being met, the cell becomes depolarized and allows positively charged ions into the axon at the nodes of ranvier. This mix of positive and negative ions causes an electrical charge to form (an action potential). At 120 meters per second, the action potential travels to the terminal ...
... With threshold being met, the cell becomes depolarized and allows positively charged ions into the axon at the nodes of ranvier. This mix of positive and negative ions causes an electrical charge to form (an action potential). At 120 meters per second, the action potential travels to the terminal ...
Abstracts - BCCN 2009
... The Hodgkin and Huxley model of a neuron, when driven with constant input, spikes periodically, such that the dynamics trace out a stable, closed orbit in the system's state space, which is composed of the voltage and the gating variables. If the input is not constant, but varies in time around a me ...
... The Hodgkin and Huxley model of a neuron, when driven with constant input, spikes periodically, such that the dynamics trace out a stable, closed orbit in the system's state space, which is composed of the voltage and the gating variables. If the input is not constant, but varies in time around a me ...