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Recording simultaneous activity of hundreds of neurons is now possible. Existing methods can model such population activity, but do not directly reveal the computations used by the brain. We present a fully unsupervised method that models…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-24 Connor Brennan , Alex Proekt

The continuous integration of experimental data into coherent models of the brain is an increasing challenge of modern neuroscience. Such models provide a bridge between structure and activity, and identify the mechanisms giving rise to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-03-03 Jannis Schuecker , Maximilian Schmidt , Sacha J. van Albada , Markus Diesmann , Moritz Helias

Artificial intelligence algorithms largely build on multi-layered neural networks. Coping with their increasing complexity and memory requirements calls for a paradigmatic change in the way these powerful algorithms are run. Quantum…

Foundation models have shown remarkable success in fitting biological visual systems; however, their black-box nature inherently limits their utility for understanding brain function. Here, we peek inside a SOTA foundation model of neural…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-30 Johannes Bertram , Luciano Dyballa , Anderson Keller , Savik Kinger , Steven W. Zucker

The study and understanding of human behaviour is relevant to computer science, artificial intelligence, neural computation, cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, and several other areas. Presupposing cognition as basis of behaviour,…

In this article, we review a class of neuro-mimetic computational models that we place under the label of spiking predictive coding. Specifically, we review the general framework of predictive processing in the context of neurons that emit…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-10 Antony W. N'dri , William Gebhardt , Céline Teulière , Fleur Zeldenrust , Rajesh P. N. Rao , Jochen Triesch , Alexander Ororbia

Our understanding of neural computation is founded on the assumption that neurons fire in response to a linear summation of inputs. Yet experiments demonstrate that some neurons are capable of complex functions that require interactions…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Christopher W. Lynn

This explanation of what a brain is and does rests on informational first principles, because information theory, like its parent theory thermodynamics, is mathematically sacrosanct, itself resting on real-valued probability.Just as…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-10-01 William Softky

A theoretical quantum brain model is proposed using a nonlinear Schroedinger wave equation. The model proposes that there exists a quantum process that mediates the collective response of a neural lattice (classical brain). The model is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 Laxmidhar Behera , Indrani Kar , Avshalom Elitzur

While looking for evidence of quantum coherent states within the brain, many quantum mind advocates proposed experiments based on the assumption that the coherent state of a photon entering the visual system could somehow be preserved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Danko Georgiev

Sequential activation of neurons is a common feature of network activity during a variety of behaviors, including working memory and decision making. Previous network models for sequences and memory emphasized specialized architectures in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-03-16 Kanaka Rajan , Christopher D Harvey , David W Tank

Molecular dynamics simulations have been extensively used to predict thermal properties, but simulating different phases with similar precision using a unified force field is often difficult, due to the lack of accurate and transferrable…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-12 Ruiyang Li , Eungkyu Lee , Tengfei Luo

We develop a mathematical model of information transmission across the biological neural network of the human brain. The overall function of the brain consists of the emergent processes resulting from the spread of information through the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-01-22 Stefanie Heyden , Michael Ortiz

Optical neural networks promise ultrafast, low-energy information processing by performing computation directly with photons. Current implementations, however, are largely restricted to steady-state operation and rely on high-latency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jiande Cao , Yexiong Zeng , Franco Nori , Ze-Liang Xiang

The quantum circuit model is the most widely used model of quantum computation. It provides both a framework for formulating quantum algorithms and an architecture for the physical construction of quantum computers. However, several other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Stephen P. Jordan

In this work, we extend standard neural networks by building upon an assumption that neuronal activations correspond to the angle of a complex number lying on the unit circle, or 'phasor.' Each layer in such a network produces new…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp , Maxim Bazhenov

In this survey, we aim to explore the fundamental question of whether the next generation of artificial intelligence requires quantum computing. Artificial intelligence is increasingly playing a crucial role in many aspects of our daily…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Aras Bacho , Holger Boche , Gitta Kutyniok

In the last century, most sensorimotor studies of cortical neurons relied on average firing rates. Rate coding is efficient for fast sensorimotor processing that occurs within a few seconds. Much less is known about the neural mechanisms…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-01 Terrence J. Sejnowski

This chapter presents a quantum computing-based approach to study and harness neuronal correlates of mental activity for the development of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems. It introduces the notion of a logic of the mind, where…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Eduardo Reck Miranda

We discuss a quantum version of an artificial deep neural network where the role of neurons is taken over by qubits and the role of weights is played by unitaries. The role of the non-linear activation function is taken over by subsequently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Beatrix C. Hiesmayr