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We address the problem of identifying functional interactions among stochastic neurons with variable-length memory from their spiking activity. The neuronal network is modeled by a stochastic system of interacting point processes with…

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In exploring the simulation of human rhythmic perception and synchronization capabilities, this study introduces a computational model inspired by the physical and biological processes underlying rhythm processing. Utilizing a reservoir…

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Normative models of synaptic plasticity use a combination of mathematics and computational simulations to arrive at predictions of behavioral and network-level adaptive phenomena. In recent years, there has been an explosion of theoretical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-10 Colin Bredenberg , Cristina Savin

The computational capabilities of a neural network are widely assumed to be determined by its static architecture. Here we challenge this view by establishing that a fixed neural structure can operate in fundamentally different…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xia Chen

Recently emerged technologies based on Deep Learning (DL) achieved outstanding results on a variety of tasks in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, these encounter several challenges related to robustness to adversarial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Gabriele Lagani , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Giuseppe Amato

Neuronal spikes directly drive muscles and endow animals with agile movements, but applying the spike-based control signals to actuators in artificial sensor-motor systems inevitably causes a collapse of learning. We developed a system that…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-03 Takeshi Kobayashi , Shogo Yonekura , Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Game theory is fundamental to understanding cooperation between agents. Mainly, the Prisoner's Dilemma is a well-known model that has been extensively studied in complex networks. However, although the emergence of cooperation has been…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-04 Nastaran Lotfi , Francisco A. Rodrigues

In a complex system, the interactions between individual agents often lead to emergent collective behavior like spontaneous synchronization, swarming, and pattern formation. The topology of the network of interactions can have a dramatic…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-07-25 Mark J Panaggio , Maria-Veronica Ciocanel , Lauren Lazarus , Chad M Topaz , Bin Xu

In neural circuits, synaptic strengths influence neuronal activity by shaping network dynamics, and neuronal activity influences synaptic strengths through activity-dependent plasticity. Motivated by this fact, we study a recurrent-network…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-12 David G. Clark , L. F. Abbott

We consider a broad class of stochastic imitation dynamics over networks, encompassing several well known learning models such as the replicator dynamics. In the considered models, players have no global information about the game…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Lorenzo Zino , Giacomo Como , Fabio Fagnani

This work uses game theory as a mathematical framework to address interaction modeling in multi-agent motion forecasting and control. Despite its interpretability, applying game theory to real-world robotics, like automated driving, faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Christopher Diehl , Tobias Klosek , Martin Krüger , Nils Murzyn , Timo Osterburg , Torsten Bertram

In this work we study, analytically and employing Monte Carlo simulations, the influence of the competition between several activity-dependent synaptic processes, such as short-term synaptic facilitation and depression, on the maximum…

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A synaptic theory of Working Memory (WM) has been developed in the last decade as a possible alternative to the persistent spiking paradigm. In this context, we have developed a neural mass model able to reproduce exactly the dynamics of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-29 Halgurd Taher , Alessandro Torcini , Simona Olmi

Humans excel at continually acquiring, consolidating, and retaining information from an ever-changing environment, whereas artificial neural networks (ANNs) exhibit catastrophic forgetting. There are considerable differences in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Fahad Sarfraz , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Learning or memory formation are associated with the strengthening of the synaptic connections between neurons according to a pattern reflected by the input. According to this theory a retained memory sequence is associated to a dynamic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Pascal Chossat , Martin Krupa

Systems of dynamical interactions between competing species can be used to model many complex systems, and can be mathematically described by {\em random} networks. Understanding how patterns of activity arise in such systems is important…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-01-21 Nick McCullen , Thomas Wagenknecht

In realistic neural circuits, both neurons and synapses are coupled in dynamics with separate time scales. The circuit functions are intimately related to these coupled dynamics. However, it remains challenging to understand the intrinsic…

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Progress has led to a detailed understanding of the neural mechanisms that underlie decision making in primates. However, less is known about why such mechanisms are present in the first place. Theory suggests that primate decision making…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-21 Nathan J. Wispinski , Scott A. Stone , Anthony Singhal , Patrick M. Pilarski , Craig S. Chapman

Neural networks are composed of neurons and synapses, which are responsible for learning in a slow adaptive dynamical process. Here we experimentally show that neurons act like independent anisotropic multiplex hubs, which relay and mute…

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Recent physiological measurements have provided clear evidence about scale-free avalanche brain activity and EEG spectra, feeding the classical enigma of how such a chaotic system can ever learn or respond in a controlled and reproducible…

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