The hippocampus is an essential brain region for spatial memory and learning. Recently, a theoretical model of the hippocampus based on temporal difference (TD) learning has been published. Inspired by the successor representation (SR) learning algor...
In nature, bacteria exhibit a limited repertoire of behaviors in response to environmental changes. Synthetic biology has now opened up the possibility of programming cells or unicellular organisms in order to enable them to perform certain tasks, wh...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive lung disease that produces non-reversible airflow limitations. Approximately 10% of Canadians aged 35 years or older are living with COPD. Primary care is often the first contact an indivi...
Cell segmentation is a major bottleneck in extracting quantitative single-cell information from microscopy data. The challenge is exasperated in the setting of microstructured environments. While deep learning approaches have proven useful for genera...
Whether we emphasize the notion of 'sign' or the notion of 'code', either way the main interest of biosemiotics and Code Biology is the same, and we argue that the idea of the lower threshold is what still unifies these two groups. Code Biology conce...
This research addresses the interactions between the unicellular slime mold Physarum polycephalum and a red yeast in a spatial ecosystem over week-long imaging experiments. An inverse relationship between the growth rates of both species is shown, wh...
BACKGROUND: The variational Free Energy Principle (FEP) establishes that a neural system minimizes a free energy function of their internal state through environmental sensing entailing beliefs about hidden states in their environment.
The present study aims to propose a dynamic interactive self-organizing aggregation (DISA) method for swarm robots. The proposed method was determined by way of the movement of swarm robots, obstacle, and robot sensors. The controller used in the DIS...
Top-down processing in neocortex underlies functions such as prediction, expectation, and attention. Visual systems have much feedback connection that carries information of behavioral context. Top-down signals along feedback pathways modulate the re...
Although machines may be good at mimicking, they are not currently able, as organisms are, to act creatively. We offer an understanding of the emergent qualities of biological sign processing in terms of generalization, association, and encryption. W...