Biological CyberneticsPub Date : 2022-08-01Epub Date: 2022-06-20DOI: 10.1007/s00422-022-00936-7
Aida Hajizadeh, Artur Matysiak, Matthias Wolfrum, Patrick J C May, Reinhard König
{"title":"Auditory cortex modelled as a dynamical network of oscillators: understanding event-related fields and their adaptation.","authors":"Aida Hajizadeh, Artur Matysiak, Matthias Wolfrum, Patrick J C May, Reinhard König","doi":"10.1007/s00422-022-00936-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-022-00936-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adaptation, the reduction of neuronal responses by repetitive stimulation, is a ubiquitous feature of auditory cortex (AC). It is not clear what causes adaptation, but short-term synaptic depression (STSD) is a potential candidate for the underlying mechanism. In such a case, adaptation can be directly linked with the way AC produces context-sensitive responses such as mismatch negativity and stimulus-specific adaptation observed on the single-unit level. We examined this hypothesis via a computational model based on AC anatomy, which includes serially connected core, belt, and parabelt areas. The model replicates the event-related field (ERF) of the magnetoencephalogram as well as ERF adaptation. The model dynamics are described by excitatory and inhibitory state variables of cell populations, with the excitatory connections modulated by STSD. We analysed the system dynamics by linearising the firing rates and solving the STSD equation using time-scale separation. This allows for characterisation of AC dynamics as a superposition of damped harmonic oscillators, so-called normal modes. We show that repetition suppression of the N1m is due to a mixture of causes, with stimulus repetition modifying both the amplitudes and the frequencies of the normal modes. In this view, adaptation results from a complete reorganisation of AC dynamics rather than a reduction of activity in discrete sources. Further, both the network structure and the balance between excitation and inhibition contribute significantly to the rate with which AC recovers from adaptation. This lifetime of adaptation is longer in the belt and parabelt than in the core area, despite the time constants of STSD being spatially homogeneous. Finally, we critically evaluate the use of a single exponential function to describe recovery from adaptation.</p>","PeriodicalId":55374,"journal":{"name":"Biological Cybernetics","volume":" ","pages":"475-499"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9287241/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39999787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological CyberneticsPub Date : 2022-08-01Epub Date: 2022-06-20DOI: 10.1007/s00422-022-00938-5
Randall D Beer
{"title":"Codimension-2 parameter space structure of continuous-time recurrent neural networks.","authors":"Randall D Beer","doi":"10.1007/s00422-022-00938-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-022-00938-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>If we are ever to move beyond the study of isolated special cases in theoretical neuroscience, we need to develop more general theories of neural circuits over a given neural model. The present paper considers this challenge in the context of continuous-time recurrent neural networks (CTRNNs), a simple but dynamically universal model that has been widely utilized in both computational neuroscience and neural networks. Here, we extend previous work on the parameter space structure of codimension-1 local bifurcations in CTRNNs to include codimension-2 local bifurcation manifolds. Specifically, we derive the necessary conditions for all generic local codimension-2 bifurcations for general CTRNNs, specialize these conditions to circuits containing from one to four neurons, illustrate in full detail the application of these conditions to example circuits, derive closed-form expressions for these bifurcation manifolds where possible, and demonstrate how this analysis allows us to find and trace several global codimension-1 bifurcation manifolds that originate from the codimension-2 bifurcations.</p>","PeriodicalId":55374,"journal":{"name":"Biological Cybernetics","volume":" ","pages":"501-515"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40073022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dissecting cell fate dynamics in pediatric glioblastoma through the lens of complex systems and cellular cybernetics","authors":"A. Uthamacumaran","doi":"10.1007/s00422-022-00935-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-022-00935-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55374,"journal":{"name":"Biological Cybernetics","volume":"116 1","pages":"407 - 445"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43382548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal reaching trajectories based on feedforward control","authors":"Y. Taniai, T. Naniwa, J. Nishii","doi":"10.1007/s00422-022-00939-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-022-00939-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55374,"journal":{"name":"Biological Cybernetics","volume":"116 1","pages":"517 - 526"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49023738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological CyberneticsPub Date : 2022-06-01Epub Date: 2022-01-04DOI: 10.1007/s00422-021-00917-2
Alexander J White
{"title":"Sensory feedback expands dynamic complexity and aids in robustness against noise.","authors":"Alexander J White","doi":"10.1007/s00422-021-00917-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-021-00917-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It has been hypothesized that sensory feedback is a critical component in determining the functionality of a central pattern generator. To test this, Yu and Thomas's recent work Yu and Thomas (Biol Cybern 115(2):135-160, 2021) built a model of a half-center oscillator coupled to a simple muscular model with sensory feedback. They showed that sensory feedback increases robustness against external noise, while simultaneously expanding the potential repertoire of functions the half-center oscillator can perform. However, they show that this comes at the cost of robustness against internal noise.</p>","PeriodicalId":55374,"journal":{"name":"Biological Cybernetics","volume":" ","pages":"267-269"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39786035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological CyberneticsPub Date : 2022-06-01Epub Date: 2022-01-18DOI: 10.1007/s00422-021-00918-1
Alexander S Migalev, Kristina D Vigasina, Pavel M Gotovtsev
{"title":"A review of motor neural system robotic modeling approaches and instruments.","authors":"Alexander S Migalev, Kristina D Vigasina, Pavel M Gotovtsev","doi":"10.1007/s00422-021-00918-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-021-00918-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this review, we are considering an actively developing tool in neuroscience-robotic modeling. The new perspective and existing application fields, tools, and methods are discussed. We try to determine starting positions and approaches that are useful at the beginning of new research in this field. Among multiple directions of the research is robotic modeling on the level of muscles fibers and their afferents, skin surface sensors, muscles, and joints proprioceptors. Some examples of technical implementation for physical modeling are reviewed. They are software and hardware tools like event-related modeling algorithms, reduced neuron models, robotic drives constructions. We observe existing drives technologies and prospective electric motor types: switched reluctance and transverse flux motors. Next, we look at the existing examples and approaches for robotic modeling of the cerebellum and spinal cord neural networks. These examples show practical methods for the model neural network architecture and adaptation. Those methods allow the use of cortical and spinal cord reflexes for the network training and apply additional artificial blocks for data processing in other brain structures that transmit and receive data from biologically realistic models.</p>","PeriodicalId":55374,"journal":{"name":"Biological Cybernetics","volume":" ","pages":"271-306"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39691350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological CyberneticsPub Date : 2022-06-01Epub Date: 2022-01-07DOI: 10.1007/s00422-021-00916-3
Paul Masset, Shanshan Qin, Jacob A Zavatone-Veth
{"title":"Drifting neuronal representations: Bug or feature?","authors":"Paul Masset, Shanshan Qin, Jacob A Zavatone-Veth","doi":"10.1007/s00422-021-00916-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-021-00916-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The brain displays a remarkable ability to sustain stable memories, allowing animals to execute precise behaviors or recall stimulus associations years after they were first learned. Yet, recent long-term recording experiments have revealed that single-neuron representations continuously change over time, contravening the classical assumption that learned features remain static. How do unstable neural codes support robust perception, memories, and actions? Here, we review recent experimental evidence for such representational drift across brain areas, as well as dissections of its functional characteristics and underlying mechanisms. We emphasize theoretical proposals for how drift need not only be a form of noise for which the brain must compensate. Rather, it can emerge from computationally beneficial mechanisms in hierarchical networks performing robust probabilistic computations.</p>","PeriodicalId":55374,"journal":{"name":"Biological Cybernetics","volume":" ","pages":"253-266"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39792453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological CyberneticsPub Date : 2022-06-01Epub Date: 2022-03-18DOI: 10.1007/s00422-022-00925-w
Ryosuke Mori, Hiroyuki Mino, Dominique M Durand
{"title":"Pulse-frequency-dependent resonance in a population of pyramidal neuron models.","authors":"Ryosuke Mori, Hiroyuki Mino, Dominique M Durand","doi":"10.1007/s00422-022-00925-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00422-022-00925-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Stochastic resonance is known as a phenomenon whereby information transmission of weak signal or subthreshold stimuli can be enhanced by additive random noise with a suitable intensity. Another phenomenon induced by applying deterministic pulsatile electric stimuli with a pulse frequency, commonly used for deep brain stimulation (DBS), was also shown to improve signal-to-noise ratio in neuron models. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that pulsatile high-frequency stimulation could improve the detection of both sub- and suprathreshold synaptic stimuli by tuning the frequency of the stimulation in a population of pyramidal neuron models. Computer simulations showed that mutual information estimated from a population of neural spike trains displayed a typical resonance curve with a peak value of the pulse frequency at 80-120 Hz, similar to those utilized for DBS in clinical situations. It is concluded that a \"pulse-frequency-dependent resonance\" (PFDR) can enhance information transmission over a broad range of synaptically connected networks. Since the resonance frequency matches that used clinically, PFDR could contribute to the mechanism of the therapeutic effect of DBS.</p>","PeriodicalId":55374,"journal":{"name":"Biological Cybernetics","volume":"116 3","pages":"363-375"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9417355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neural kernels for recursive support vector regression as a model for episodic memory.","authors":"Christian Leibold","doi":"10.1007/s00422-022-00926-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-022-00926-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Retrieval of episodic memories requires intrinsic reactivation of neuronal activity patterns. The content of the memories is thereby assumed to be stored in synaptic connections. This paper proposes a theory in which these are the synaptic connections that specifically convey the temporal order information contained in the sequences of a neuronal reservoir to the sensory-motor cortical areas that give rise to the subjective impression of retrieval of sensory motor events. The theory is based on a novel recursive version of support vector regression that allows for efficient continuous learning that is only limited by the representational capacity of the reservoir. The paper argues that hippocampal theta sequences are a potential neural substrate underlying this reservoir. The theory is consistent with confabulations and post hoc alterations of existing memories.</p>","PeriodicalId":55374,"journal":{"name":"Biological Cybernetics","volume":"116 3","pages":"377-386"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9170657/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10239134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Unveiling social distancing mechanisms via a fish-robot hybrid interaction","authors":"Donato Romano, C. Stefanini","doi":"10.1007/s00422-022-00930-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-022-00930-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55374,"journal":{"name":"Biological Cybernetics","volume":"116 1","pages":"387 - 387"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45945826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}