eLife
Nov 27, 2024
The relation between neural activity and behaviorally relevant variables is at the heart of neuroscience research. When strong, this relation is termed a neural representation. There is increasing evidence, however, for partial dissociations between ...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Nov 26, 2024
Are the membrane systems able of performing arithmetic operations? In the last dozen years, there were published several implementations of the arithmetic operations based on membrane systems by using all available topologies (cell-like, tissue-like,...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Nov 26, 2024
Current vision-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) face key challenges due to their model structures typically focusing on single mechanisms and neglecting the integration of multiple biological features. These limitations, coupled with limited s...
Molecular pharmacology
Nov 22, 2024
The patch-clamp technique has been the gold standard for analysis of excitable cells. Since its development in the 1980s, it has contributed immensely to our understanding of neurons, muscle cells, and cardiomyocytes and the ion channels and receptor...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Nov 20, 2024
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged in recent years as a powerful tool to learn tasks across a wide range of graph domains in a data-driven fashion. Based on a message passing mechanism, GNNs have gained increasing popularity due to their intui...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Nov 19, 2024
Natural visual scenes are dominated by spatiotemporal image dynamics, but how the visual system integrates "movie" information over time is unclear. We characterized optic tectal neuronal receptive fields using sparse noise stimuli and reverse correl...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Nov 17, 2024
Among various types of memory, working memory (WM) plays a crucial role in reasoning, decision-making, and behavior regulation. Neuromorphic computing is a well-established engineering approach that offers promising avenues for advancing our understa...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Nov 17, 2024
Inspired by the brain's information processing using binary spikes, spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer significant reductions in energy consumption and are more adept at incorporating multi-scale biological characteristics. In SNNs, spiking neurons...
International journal of neural systems
Nov 15, 2024
Eye movements are the primary way primates interact with the world. Understanding how the brain controls the eyes is therefore crucial for improving human health and designing visual rehabilitation devices. However, brain activity is challenging to d...
Journal of neural engineering
Nov 14, 2024
Deep learning is increasingly permeating neuroscience, leading to a rise in signal-processing applications for extracellular recordings. These signals capture the activity of small neuronal populations, necessitating 'spike sorting' to assign action ...