PLoS computational biology
Aug 9, 2021
Artificial neural networks, taking inspiration from biological neurons, have become an invaluable tool for machine learning applications. Recent studies have developed techniques to effectively tune the connectivity of sparsely-connected artificial n...
Neuroscience
Aug 3, 2021
Neurons are very complicated computational devices, incorporating numerous non-linear processes, particularly in their dendrites. Biophysical models capture these processes directly by explicitly modelling physiological variables, such as ion channel...
Current opinion in neurobiology
Jun 1, 2021
This article highlights specific features of biological neurons and their dendritic trees, whose adoption may help advance artificial neural networks used in various machine learning applications. Advancements could take the form of increased computa...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Feb 16, 2021
In spiking neural P (SN P) systems, neurons are interconnected by means of synapses, and they use spikes to communicate with each other. However, in biology, the complex structure of dendritic tree is also an important part in the communication schem...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Dec 29, 2020
A typical feature of hyperbox-based dendrite morphological neurons (DMN) is the generation of sharp and rough decision boundaries that inaccurately track the distribution shape of classes of patterns. This feature is because the minimum and maximum a...
International journal of neural systems
Nov 16, 2020
Dendrite P systems (DeP systems) are a recently introduced neural-like model of computation. They provide an alternative to the more classical spiking neural (SN) P systems. In this paper, we present the first software simulator for DeP systems, and ...
Neural computation
Oct 20, 2020
Nonlinear interactions in the dendritic tree play a key role in neural computation. Nevertheless, modeling frameworks aimed at the construction of large-scale, functional spiking neural networks, such as the Neural Engineering Framework, tend to assu...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Jun 26, 2020
Cortical neurons are silent most of the time: sparse activity enables low-energy computation in the brain, and promises to do the same in neuromorphic hardware. Beyond power efficiency, sparse codes have favourable properties for associative learning...
BMC neuroscience
Jun 24, 2020
BACKGROUND: Retinal circuitry provides a fundamental window to neural networks, featuring widely investigated visual phenomena ranging from direction selectivity to fast detection of approaching motion. As the divide between experimental and theoreti...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Apr 18, 2020
It was recently found that dendrites are not just a passive channel. They can perform mixed computation of analog and digital signals, and therefore can be abstracted as information processors. Moreover, dendrites possess a feedback mechanism. Motiva...