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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
{"title":"Change in task conditions leads to changes in intermittency in intermittent feedback control employed by CNS in control of human stance","authors":"Ranjita Dash, H. Palanthandalam-Madapusi","doi":"10.1007/s00422-022-00927-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-022-00927-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55374,"journal":{"name":"Biological Cybernetics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45704839","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 : 2022-04-01Epub Date: 2022-01-15DOI: 10.1007/s00422-021-00915-4
Klavdia Zemlianova, Amitabha Bose, John Rinzel
{"title":"A biophysical counting mechanism for keeping time.","authors":"Klavdia Zemlianova, Amitabha Bose, John Rinzel","doi":"10.1007/s00422-021-00915-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-021-00915-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The ability to estimate and produce appropriately timed responses is central to many behaviors including speaking, dancing, and playing a musical instrument. A classical framework for estimating or producing a time interval is the pacemaker-accumulator model in which pulses of a pacemaker are counted and compared to a stored representation. However, the neural mechanisms for how these pulses are counted remain an open question. The presence of noise and stochasticity further complicates the picture. We present a biophysical model of how to keep count of a pacemaker in the presence of various forms of stochasticity using a system of bistable Wilson-Cowan units asymmetrically connected in a one-dimensional array; all units receive the same input pulses from a central clock but only one unit is active at any point in time. With each pulse from the clock, the position of the activated unit changes thereby encoding the total number of pulses emitted by the clock. This neural architecture maps the counting problem into the spatial domain, which in turn translates count to a time estimate. We further extend the model to a hierarchical structure to be able to robustly achieve higher counts.</p>","PeriodicalId":55374,"journal":{"name":"Biological Cybernetics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39684226","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":"Stochastic synchronization in nonlinear network systems driven by intrinsic and coupling noise","authors":"Zahra Aminzare, Vaibhav Srivastava","doi":"10.1007/s00422-022-00928-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-022-00928-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55374,"journal":{"name":"Biological Cybernetics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46781889","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 : 2022-04-01Epub Date: 2022-03-23DOI: 10.1007/s00422-022-00929-6
Alberto Pérez-Cervera, Benjamin Lindner, Peter J Thomas
{"title":"Quantitative comparison of the mean-return-time phase and the stochastic asymptotic phase for noisy oscillators.","authors":"Alberto Pérez-Cervera, Benjamin Lindner, Peter J Thomas","doi":"10.1007/s00422-022-00929-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00422-022-00929-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Seminal work by A. Winfree and J. Guckenheimer showed that a deterministic phase variable can be defined either in terms of Poincaré sections or in terms of the asymptotic (long-time) behaviour of trajectories approaching a stable limit cycle. However, this equivalence between the deterministic notions of phase is broken in the presence of noise. Different notions of phase reduction for a stochastic oscillator can be defined either in terms of mean-return-time sections or as the argument of the slowest decaying complex eigenfunction of the Kolmogorov backwards operator. Although both notions of phase enjoy a solid theoretical foundation, their relationship remains unexplored. Here, we quantitatively compare both notions of stochastic phase. We derive an expression relating both notions of phase and use it to discuss differences (and similarities) between both definitions of stochastic phase for (i) a spiral sink motivated by stochastic models for electroencephalograms, (ii) noisy limit-cycle systems-neuroscience models, and (iii) a stochastic heteroclinic oscillator inspired by a simple motor-control system.</p>","PeriodicalId":55374,"journal":{"name":"Biological Cybernetics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9068686/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40317020","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":"Mutual information resonances in delay-coupled limit cycle and quasi-cycle brain rhythms","authors":"Arthur S. Powanwe, A. Longtin","doi":"10.1007/s00422-022-00932-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-022-00932-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55374,"journal":{"name":"Biological Cybernetics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42787259","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 : 2022-04-01Epub Date: 2022-02-15DOI: 10.1007/s00422-022-00920-1
Konstantin Holzhausen, Lukas Ramlow, Shusen Pu, Peter J Thomas, Benjamin Lindner
{"title":"Mean-return-time phase of a stochastic oscillator provides an approximate renewal description for the associated point process.","authors":"Konstantin Holzhausen, Lukas Ramlow, Shusen Pu, Peter J Thomas, Benjamin Lindner","doi":"10.1007/s00422-022-00920-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-022-00920-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Stochastic oscillations can be characterized by a corresponding point process; this is a common practice in computational neuroscience, where oscillations of the membrane voltage under the influence of noise are often analyzed in terms of the interspike interval statistics, specifically the distribution and correlation of intervals between subsequent threshold-crossing times. More generally, crossing times and the corresponding interval sequences can be introduced for different kinds of stochastic oscillators that have been used to model variability of rhythmic activity in biological systems. In this paper we show that if we use the so-called mean-return-time (MRT) phase isochrons (introduced by Schwabedal and Pikovsky) to count the cycles of a stochastic oscillator with Markovian dynamics, the interphase interval sequence does not show any linear correlations, i.e., the corresponding sequence of passage times forms approximately a renewal point process. We first outline the general mathematical argument for this finding and illustrate it numerically for three models of increasing complexity: (i) the isotropic Guckenheimer-Schwabedal-Pikovsky oscillator that displays positive interspike interval (ISI) correlations if rotations are counted by passing the spoke of a wheel; (ii) the adaptive leaky integrate-and-fire model with white Gaussian noise that shows negative interspike interval correlations when spikes are counted in the usual way by the passage of a voltage threshold; (iii) a Hodgkin-Huxley model with channel noise (in the diffusion approximation represented by Gaussian noise) that exhibits weak but statistically significant interspike interval correlations, again for spikes counted when passing a voltage threshold. For all these models, linear correlations between intervals vanish when we count rotations by the passage of an MRT isochron. We finally discuss that the removal of interval correlations does not change the long-term variability and its effect on information transmission, especially in the neural context.</p>","PeriodicalId":55374,"journal":{"name":"Biological Cybernetics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9068687/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39801714","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}