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In recent years there has been explosive growth in the number of neuroimaging studies performed using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). The field that has grown around the acquisition and analysis of fMRI data is intrinsically…

Methodology · Statistics 2009-06-22 Martin A. Lindquist

We discuss the speed-error-heat triangle and related problems with rapidly increasing energy dissipation and error rate during miniaturization. These and the independently growing need of unconditional data security have provoked…

General Physics · Physics 2008-08-20 Laszlo B. Kish

We demonstrate that waves in distinct layers of a neuronal network can become phase-locked by common spatiotemporal noise. This phenomenon is studied for stationary bumps, traveling waves, and breathers. A weak noise expansion is used to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-04-22 Zachary P. Kilpatrick

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) recognition rates drop in the presence of noise. We demonstrate a novel method of counteracting this drop in recognition rate by adjusting the biases of the neurons in the convolutional layers according to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-06 James R. Geraci , Parichay Kapoor

Even under constant external conditions, the expression levels of genes fluctuate. Much emphasis has been placed on the components of this noise that are due to randomness in transcription and translation; here we analyze the role of noise…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2013-08-01 Gasper Tkacik , Thomas Gregor , William Bialek

Noise can induce time order in the dynamics of nonlinear dynamical systems. For example, coherence resonance occurs in various neuron models driven by a noise. In studies of coherence resonance, ensemble-averaged measures of the coherence…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-10-05 Go Uchida

Although noise-based logic shows potential advantages of reduced power dissipation and the ability of large parallel operations with low hardware and time complexity the question still persist: is randomness really needed out of…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-01-07 He Wen , Laszlo B. Kish

Denoising, the process of reducing random fluctuations in a signal to emphasize essential patterns, has been a fundamental problem of interest since the dawn of modern scientific inquiry. Recent denoising techniques, particularly in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Peyman Milanfar , Mauricio Delbracio

White noise methods are a powerful tool for characterizing the computation performed by neural systems. These methods allow one to identify the feature or features that a neural system extracts from a complex input, and to determine how…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Sungho Hong , Blaise Aguera y Arcas , Adrienne L. Fairhall

The biggest challenge that quantum computing and quantum machine learning are currently facing is the presence of noise in quantum devices. As a result, big efforts have been put into correcting or mitigating the induced errors. But, can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 L. Domingo , G. Carlo , F. Borondo

It is well known that the kinetics of an intracellular biochemical network is stochastic. This is due to intrinsic noise arising from the random timing of biochemical reactions in the network as well as due to extrinsic noise stemming from…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-05 Emma M. Keizer , Bjorn Bastian , Robert W. Smith , Ramon Grima , Christian Fleck

Uncertainty in biological neural systems appears to be computationally beneficial rather than detrimental. However, in neuromorphic computing systems, device variability often limits performance, including accuracy and efficiency. In this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Huannan Zheng , Jingli Liu , Kezhou Yang

Gene expression and its regulation is a nonequilibrium stochastic process. Different molecules are involved in several biochemical steps in this process with low copies. It is observed that the stochasticity in biochemical processes is…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-22 Rajesh Karmakar

Unlike digital computers, the brain exhibits spontaneous activity even during complete rest, despite the evolutionary pressure for energy efficiency. Inspired by the critical brain hypothesis, which proposes that the brain operates…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-15 Narumitsu Ikeda , Dai Akita , Hirokazu Takahashi

Over repeat presentations of the same stimulus, sensory neurons show variable responses. This "noise" is typically correlated between pairs of cells, and a question with rich history in neuroscience is how these noise correlations impact…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-16 Yu Hu , Joel Zylberberg , Eric Shea-Brown

A noise source model, consisting of a pulse sequence at random times with memory, is presented. By varying the memory we can obtain variable randomness of the stochastic process. The delay time between pulses, i. e. the noise memory,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-29 O. Chichigina , D. Valenti , B. Spagnolo

Molecular recognition, which is essential in processing information in biological systems, takes place in a crowded noisy biochemical environment and requires the recognition of a specific target within a background of various similar…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2010-07-27 Yonatan Savir , Tsvi Tlusty

Noise-induced population bursting has been widely identified to play important roles in the information process. We constructed a mathematical model for a random and sparse neural network where bursting can be induced from the resting state…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-10 Na Yu , Gurpreet Jagdev , Michelle Morgovsky

Despite the significance of short-term memory in cognitive function, the process of encoding and sustaining the input information in neural activity dynamics remains elusive. Herein, we unveiled the significance of transient neural dynamics…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-01 Kohei Ichikawa , Kunihiko Kaneko

The concept of stochastic resonance in nonlinear dynamics is applied to interpret the capacity of noisy quantum channels. The two-Pauli channel is used to illustrate the idea. The fidelity of the channel is also considered. Noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Julian Juhi-Lian Ting