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We investigate the collective dynamics of excitatory-inhibitory excitable networks in response to external stimuli. How to enhance dynamic range, which represents the ability of networks to encode external stimuli, is crucial to many…

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The reaction-diffusion waves of proteins are known to be involved in fundamental cellular functions, such as cell migration, cell division, and vesicular transportation. In some of these phenomena, pattern formation on the membranes is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-16 Naoki Tamemoto , Hiroshi Noguchi

Dormancy is a widespread adaptive strategy that enables populations to persist in fluctuating environments, yet how its benefits depend on the temporal structure of environmental variability remains unclear. We examine how dormancy…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-08 Jorge Hidalgo , Lorenzo Fant , Rafael Rubio de Casas , Miguel A. Muñoz

Distributed dynamic compensators, also known as distributed observer, play a key role in the output consensus problem of heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems. However, most existing distributed dynamic compensators require either the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Guangqi Li , Long Wang

Contextual memory integration remains a high challenge in the development of language models, particularly in tasks that require maintaining coherence over extended sequences. Traditional approaches, such as self-attention mechanisms and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 George Applegarth , Christian Weatherstone , Maximilian Hollingsworth , Henry Middlebrook , Marcus Irvin

Living cells adapt and respond actively to the mechanical properties of their environment. In addition to biochemical mechanotransduction, evidence exists for a myosin-dependent, purely mechanical sensitivity to the stiffness of the…

Eukaryotic cells generally sense chemical gradients using the binding of chemical ligands to membrane receptors. In order to perform chemotaxis effectively in different environments, cells need to adapt to different concentrations. We…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-20 Vishnu Srinivasan , Wei Wang , Brian A. Camley

Many signalling functions in molecular biology require proteins bind to substrates such as DNA in response to environmental signals such as the simultaneous binding to a small molecule. Examples are repressor proteins which may transmit…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 Rhoda J. Hawkins , Thomas C. B. McLeish

The adaptive immune system relies on diversity of its repertoire of receptors to protect the organism from a great variety of pathogens. Since the initial repertoire is the result of random gene rearrangement, binding of receptors is not…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-30 Alexander Mozeika , Franca Fraternali , Deborah Dunn-Walters , Anthony C. C. Coolen

This manuscript presents an advanced framework for Bayesian learning by incorporating action and state-dependent signal variances into decision-making models. This framework is pivotal in understanding complex data-feedback loops and…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-29 Kaiwen Hou

The response of a neural cell to an external stimulus can follow one of the two patterns: Nonresonant neurons monotonously relax to the resting state after excitation while resonant ones show subthreshold oscillations. We investigate how do…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 T. Verechtchaguina , L. Schimansky-Geier , I. M. Sokolov

The collective dynamics of a network of coupled excitable systems in response to an external stimulus depends on the topology of the connections in the network. Here we develop a general theoretical approach to study the effects of network…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-10-22 Daniel B. Larremore , Woodrow L. Shew , Juan G. Restrepo

Biological organisms exhibit diverse strategies for adapting to varying environments. For example, a population of organisms may express the same phenotype in all environments (`unvarying strategy'), or follow environmental cues and express…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-08 BingKan Xue , Pablo Sartori , Stanislas Leibler

The conventional impedance profile of a neuron can identify the presence of resonance and other properties of the neuronal response to oscillatory inputs, such as nonlinear response amplifications, but it cannot distinguish other nonlinear…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-24 Rodrigo F. O. Pena , Vinicius Lima , Renan O. Shimoura , Cesar C. Ceballos , Horacio G. Rotstein , Antonio C. Roque

The self-organization of proteins into enriched compartments and the formation of complex patterns are crucial processes for life on the cellular level. Liquid-liquid phase separation is one mechanism for forming such enriched compartments.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-07 Antonia Winter , Yuhao Liu , Alexander Ziepke , George Dadunashvili , Erwin Frey

Dynamical systems can autonomously adapt their organization so that the required target dynamics is reproduced. In the previous Rapid Communication [Phys. Rev. E 90,030901(R) (2014)], it was shown how such systems can be designed using…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-11-04 Pablo Kaluza , Alexander S. Mikhailov

[Context & Motivation] Adaptive systems are an important research area. The dominant reason for adaptivity in systems are changes in the environment. Thus, it is an important question how to model the environment and how to determine the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Fabian Kneer , Erik Kamsties , Klaus Schmid

Sensory systems across all modalities and species exhibit adaptation to continuously changing input statistics. Individual neurons have been shown to modulate their response gains so as to maximize information transmission in different…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-01 Lyndon R. Duong , Colin Bredenberg , David J. Heeger , Eero P. Simoncelli

Human dynamical social networks encode information and are highly adaptive. To characterize the information encoded in the fast dynamics of social interactions, here we introduce the entropy of dynamical social networks. By analysing a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-01-17 Kun Zhao , Márton Karsai , Ginestra Bianconi

Understanding how the brain learns to compute functions reliably, efficiently and robustly with noisy spiking activity is a fundamental challenge in neuroscience. Most sensory and motor tasks can be described as dynamical systems and could…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-24 Sophie Denève , Alireza Alemi , Ralph Bourdoukan