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Traditional artificial neural networks take inspiration from biological networks, using layers of neuron-like nodes to pass information for processing. More realistic models include spiking in the neural network, capturing the electrical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Christopher S. Yang , Sylvester J. Gates , Dulara De Zoysa , Jaehoon Choe , Wolfgang Losert , Corey B. Hart

Mathematical model of spiking neuron network (SNN) supplied by astrocytes is investigated. The astrocytes are specific type of brain cells which are not electrically excitable but inducing chemical modulations of neuronal firing. We…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-07 Sergey V. Stasenko , Victor B. Kazantsev

Astrocytes are a ubiquitous and enigmatic type of non-neuronal cell and are found in the brain of all vertebrates. While traditionally viewed as being supportive of neurons, it is increasingly recognized that astrocytes may play a more…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-13 Lulu Gong , Fabio Pasqualetti , Thomas Papouin , ShiNung Ching

This paper presents an innovative methodology for improving the robustness and computational efficiency of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), a critical component in neuromorphic computing. The proposed approach integrates astrocytes, a type…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Murat Isik , Kayode Inadagbo

Understanding the role of astrocytes in brain computation is a nascent challenge, promising immense rewards, in terms of new neurobiological knowledge that can be translated into artificial intelligence. In our ongoing effort to identify…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-10 Ioannis Polykretis , Vladimir Ivanov , Konstantinos P. Michmizos

Modeling the neuronal processes underlying short-term working memory remains the focus of many theoretical studies in neuroscience. Here we propose a mathematical model of spiking neuron network (SNN) demonstrating how a piece of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-01 Yuliya Tsybina , Innokentiy Kastalskiy , Mikhail Krivonosov , Alexey Zaikin , Victor Kazantsev , Alexander Gorban , Susanna Gordleeva

Neural networks have become the key technology of artificial intelligence and have contributed to breakthroughs in several machine learning tasks, primarily owing to advances in deep learning applied to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Stanisław Woźniak , Angeliki Pantazi , Thomas Bohnstingl , Evangelos Eleftheriou

The neuronal paradigm of studying the brain has left us with limitations in both our understanding of how neurons process information to achieve biological intelligence and how such knowledge may be translated into artificial intelligence…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-12 Leo Kozachkov , Konstantinos P. Michmizos

Astrocytes, the most abundant type of glial cell, play a fundamental role in memory. Despite most hippocampal synapses being contacted by an astrocyte, there are no current theories that explain how neurons, synapses, and astrocytes might…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-24 Leo Kozachkov , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Dmitry Krotov

While neuromorphic computing architectures based on Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are increasingly gaining interest as a pathway toward bio-plausible machine learning, attention is still focused on computational units like the neuron and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Zhuangyu Han , A N M Nafiul Islam , Abhronil Sengupta

Biological agents navigate complex environments by combining long-term memory of successful actions with short-term suppression of recently visited locations-a capability that remains difficult to replicate in artificial systems, especially…

Spiking neural networks (SNN) are artificial computational models that have been inspired by the brain's ability to naturally encode and process information in the time domain. The added temporal dimension is believed to render them more…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-29 S. R. Nandakumar , Irem Boybat , Manuel Le Gallo , Evangelos Eleftheriou , Abu Sebastian , Bipin Rajendran

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are gaining popularity in the computational simulation and artificial intelligence fields owing to their biological plausibility and computational efficiency. This paper explores the historical development of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Tianyu Zheng , Liyuan Han , Tielin Zhang

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are bio-inspired models of neural computation that have proven highly effective. Still, ANNs lack a natural notion of time, and neural units in ANNs exchange analog values in a frame-based manner, a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Davide Zambrano , Roeland Nusselder , H. Steven Scholte , Sander Bohte

We propose a biologically plausible computational model of working memory (WM) implemented by the spiking neuron network (SNN) interacting with a network of astrocytes. SNN is modelled by the synaptically coupled Izhikevich neurons with a…

Biological neurons communicate with a sparing exchange of pulses - spikes. It is an open question how real spiking neurons produce the kind of powerful neural computation that is possible with deep artificial neural networks, using only so…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Davide Zambrano , Sander M. Bohte

The efficiency of modern machine intelligence depends on high accuracy with minimal computational cost. In spiking neural networks (SNNs), synaptic delays are crucial for encoding temporal structure, yet existing models treat them as fully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Lennart P. L. Landsmeer , Amirreza Movahedin , Mario Negrello , Said Hamdioui , Christos Strydis

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are distinguished from Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for their complex neuronal dynamics and sparse binary activations (spikes) inspired by the biological neural system. Traditional neuron models use…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Peng Xue , Wei Fang , Zhengyu Ma , Zihan Huang , Zhaokun Zhou , Yonghong Tian , Timothée Masquelier , Huihui Zhou

Mammalian brains operate in a very special surrounding: to survive they have to react quickly and effectively to the pool of stimuli patterns previously recognized as danger. Many learning tasks often encountered by living organisms involve…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) represent the latest generation of neural computation, offering a brain-inspired alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Unlike ANNs, which depend on continuous-valued signals, SNNs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Sales G. Aribe
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