The benefits of noise in neural systems: bridging theory and experiment

MD McDonnell, LM Ward - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2011 - nature.com
Although typically assumed to degrade performance, random fluctuations, or noise, can
sometimes improve information processing in non-linear systems. One such form …

A practical guide to methodological considerations in the controllability of structural brain networks

TM Karrer, JZ Kim, J Stiso, AE Kahn… - Journal of neural …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Predicting how the brain can be driven to specific states by means of internal or
external control requires a fundamental understanding of the relationship between neural …

Consequences of tuning network function by tonic and phasic locus coeruleus output and stress: regulating detection and discrimination of peripheral stimuli

DM Devilbiss - Brain research, 2019 - Elsevier
Flexible and adaptive behaviors have evolved with increasing complexity and numbers of
neuromodulator systems. The neuromodulatory locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) …

Functional importance of noise in neuronal information processing

D Guo, M Perc, T Liu, D Yao - Europhysics Letters, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Noise is an inherent part of neuronal dynamics, and thus of the brain. It can be observed in
neuronal activity at different spatiotemporal scales, including in neuronal membrane …

Photochromic and luminescent materials for the development of Chemical Artificial Intelligence

PL Gentili - Dyes and Pigments, 2022 - Elsevier
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an interdisciplinary research line that aims to devise intelligent
machines. Chemical Artificial Intelligence (CAI) focuses on designing intelligent chemical …

[HTML][HTML] Type III excitability, slope sensitivity and coincidence detection

X Meng, G Huguet, J Rinzel - Discrete and continuous dynamical …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Some neurons in the nervous system do not show repetitive firing for steady currents. For
time-varying inputs, they fire once if the input rise is fast enough. This property of phasic …

[HTML][HTML] Control strategies for underactuated neural ensembles driven by optogenetic stimulation

SN Ching, JT Ritt - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Motivated by experiments employing optogenetic stimulation of cortical regions, we consider
spike control strategies for ensembles of uncoupled integrate and fire neurons with a …

[HTML][HTML] Detecting a periodic signal by a population of spiking neurons in the weakly nonlinear response regime

M Schlungbaum, B Lindner - The European Physical Journal E, 2023 - Springer
Motivated by experimental observations, we investigate a variant of the cocktail party
problem: the detection of a weak periodic stimulus in the presence of fluctuations and …

Phase resetting in an asymptotically phaseless system: On the phase response of limit cycles verging on a heteroclinic orbit

KM Shaw, YM Park, HJ Chiel, PJ Thomas - SIAM Journal on Applied …, 2012 - SIAM
Rhythmic behaviors in neural systems often combine features of limit-cycle dynamics
(stability and periodicity) with features of near heteroclinic or near homoclinic cycle …

Single or multiple synchronization transitions in scale-free neuronal networks with electrical or chemical coupling

Y Hao, Y Gong, L Wang, X Ma, C Yang - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper, we have studied time delay-and coupling strength-induced synchronization
transitions in scale-free modified Hodgkin–Huxley (MHH) neuron networks with gap …