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We study a modular neuron alternative to the McCulloch-Pitts neuron that arises naturally in analog devices in which the neuron inputs are represented as coherent oscillatory wave signals. Although the modular neuron can compute $XOR$ at…

adap-org · Physics 2008-02-03 S. L. Adler , G. V. Bhanot , J. D. Weckel

Distributed networks of brain areas interact with one another in a time-varying fashion to enable complex cognitive and sensorimotor functions. Here we use novel network analysis algorithms to test the recruitment and integration of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-03-25 Danielle S. Bassett , Muzhi Yang , Nicholas F. Wymbs , Scott T. Grafton

Secure random numbers are a fundamental element of many applications in science, statistics, cryptography and more in general in security protocols. We present a method that enables the generation of high-speed unpredictable random numbers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Davide G. Marangon , Giuseppe Vallone , Paolo Villoresi

Neurons in the brain represent external stimuli via neural codes. These codes often arise from stereotyped stimulus-response maps, associating to each neuron a convex receptive field. An important problem confronted by the brain is to infer…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-02-25 Carina Curto , Vladimir Itskov , Alan Veliz-Cuba , Nora Youngs

The human brain has immense learning capabilities at extreme energy efficiencies and scale that no artificial system has been able to match. For decades, reverse engineering the brain has been one of the top priorities of science and…

Neurons in real brains are enormously complex computational units. Among other things, they're responsible for transforming inbound electro-chemical vectors into outbound action potentials, updating the strengths of intermediate synapses,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Blake Camp , Jaya Krishna Mandivarapu , Rolando Estrada

Cognitively inspired NLP leverages human-derived data to teach machines about language processing mechanisms. Recently, neural networks have been augmented with behavioral data to solve a range of NLP tasks spanning syntax and semantics. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Lukas Muttenthaler , Nora Hollenstein , Maria Barrett

How intelligence arises from the brain is a central problem in science. A crucial aspect of intelligence is dealing with uncertainty -- developing good predictions about one's environment, and converting these predictions into decisions.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-13 Max Dabagia , Daniel Mitropolsky , Christos H. Papadimitriou , Santosh S. Vempala

Diversity conveys advantages in nature, yet homogeneous neurons typically comprise the layers of artificial neural networks. Here we construct neural networks from neurons that learn their own activation functions, quickly diversify, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Anshul Choudhary , Anil Radhakrishnan , John F. Lindner , Sudeshna Sinha , William L. Ditto

Random networks are intensively used as null models to investigate properties of complex networks. We describe an efficient and accurate algorithm to generate arbitrarily two-point correlated undirected random networks without self- or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-10-22 Sebastian Weber , Markus Porto

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are widely used to generate random Numbers. In this paper we propose a new architecture in which an Arbiter Based PUF has been employed as a nonlinear function in Nonlinear Feedback Shift Register (NFSR)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-04-12 Ali Sadr , Mostafa Zolfaghari-Nejad

We present a new class of neurons, ARNs, which give a cross entropy on test data that is up to three times lower than the one achieved by carefully optimized LSTM neurons. The explanations for the huge improvements that often are achieved…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Roland Olsson , Chau Tran , Lars Magnusson

Short-term memory is essential for cognitive processing, yet our understanding of its neural mechanisms remains unclear. Neuroscience has long focused on how sequential activity patterns, where neurons fire one after another within large…

Brain signals constitute the information that are processed by millions of brain neurons (nerve cells and brain cells). These brain signals can be recorded and analyzed using various of non-invasive techniques such as the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-13 Almabrok Essa , Hari Kotte

The paper explores the capability of continuous-time recurrent neural networks to store and recall precisely timed scores of spike trains. We show (by numerical experiments) that this is indeed possible: within some range of parameters, any…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hugo Aguettaz , Hans-Andrea Loeliger

Generative artificial intelligence raises concerns related to energy consumption, copyright infringement and creative atrophy. We show that randomly initialized recurrent neural networks can produce arpeggios and low-frequency oscillations…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Hugo Chateau-Laurent , Tara Vanhatalo , Wei-Tung Pan , Xavier Hinaut

The human brain achieves its remarkable computational prowess not despite its inherent non-ideal factors noise, heterogeneity, structural irregularities, decentralized plasticity, systematic errors, and chaotic dynamics but precisely…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-24 Da-Zheng Feng , Hao-Xuan Du

Artificial Neural Networks, the building blocks of AI, were inspired by the human brain's network of neurons. Over the years, these networks have evolved to replicate the complex capabilities of the brain, allowing them to handle tasks such…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-11 Sanaz Saki Norouzi , Mohammad Masjedi , Pascal Hitzler

Using a new probabilistic approach we model the relationship between sequences of auditory stimuli generated by stochastic chains and the electroencephalographic (EEG) data acquired while 19 participants were exposed to those stimuli. The…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-23 Noslen Hernández , Aline Duarte , Guilherme Ost , Ricardo Fraiman , Antonio Galves , Claudia D. Vargas

Quantum theory allows for randomness generation in a device-independent setting, where no detailed description of the experimental device is required. Here we derive a general upper bound on the amount of randomness that can be generated in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Marie Ioannou , Jonatan Bohr Brask , Nicolas Brunner