Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Oct 19, 2018
The basal ganglia are considered vital to action selection - a hypothesis supported by several biologically plausible computational models. Of the several subnuclei of the basal ganglia, the globus pallidus externa (GPe) has been thought of largely a...
Journal of neuroscience methods
Oct 16, 2018
BACKGROUND: Damage to the hippocampus will result in the loss of ability to form new long-term memories and cognitive disorders. At present, there is no effective medical treatment for this issue. Hippocampal cognitive prosthesis is proposed to repla...
IEEE transactions on nanobioscience
Oct 1, 2018
Spiking neural P systems, otherwise known as named SN P systems, are bio-inspired parallel and distributed neural-like computing models. Due to the spiking behavior, SN P systems fall into the category of spiking neural networks, and are considered t...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Sep 24, 2018
For many neural network models in which neurons are trained to classify inputs like perceptrons, the number of inputs that can be classified is limited by the connectivity of each neuron, even when the total number of neurons is very large. This pose...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Sep 21, 2018
In this paper, we explore the coexistence and dynamical behaviors of multiple equilibrium points for fractional-order competitive neural networks with Gaussian activation functions. By virtue of the geometrical properties of activation functions, the...
Science advances
Sep 12, 2018
The human brain is a complex integrated spatiotemporal system, where space (which neuron fires) and time (when a neuron fires) both carry information to be processed by cognitive functions. To parallel the energy efficiency and computing functionalit...
IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems
Sep 10, 2018
The human brain is composed of 10 neurons with a switching speed of about 1 ms. Studying spiking neural networks, including the modeling, simulation, and implementation of the biological neuron models, helps us to learn about the brain and the relate...
Scientific reports
Aug 28, 2018
The rapid growth of brain-inspired computing coupled with the inefficiencies in the CMOS implementations of neuromrphic systems has led to intense exploration of efficient hardware implementations of the functional units of the brain, namely, neurons...
IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems
Aug 27, 2018
Recently, a great deal of scientific endeavour has been devoted to developing spin-based neuromorphic platforms owing to the ultra-low-power benefits offered by spin devices and the inherent correspondence between spintronic phenomena and the desired...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Aug 23, 2018
Retriggerable and non-retriggerable monostable multivibrators are simple timers with a single characteristic, their period. Motivated by the fact that monostable multivibrators are implementable in large quantities as counters in digital programmable...