Cognitive Science

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Selection of the Best Electroencephalogram Channel to Predict the Depth of Anesthesia

Precise cerebral dynamics of action of the anesthetics are a challenge for neuroscientists. This explains why there is no gold standard for monitoring the Depth of Anesthesia (DoA) and why experimental studies may use several electroencephalogram (EEG) channels, ranging from 2 to 128 EEG-channels. Our study aimed at finding the scalp area providing valuable information […]

Published on October 1, 2019

Response Dynamics in an Olivocerebellar Spiking Neural Network With Non-linear Neuron Properties

Sensorimotor signals are integrated and processed by the cerebellar circuit to predict accurate control of actions. In order to investigate how single neuron dynamics and geometrical modular connectivity affect cerebellar processing, we have built an olivocerebellar Spiking Neural Network (SNN) based on a novel simplification algorithm for single point models (Extended Generalized Leaky Integrate and […]

Published on October 1, 2019

Online Detection of Multiple Stimulus Changes Based on Single Neuron Interspike Intervals

Nervous systems need to detect stimulus changes based on their neuronal responses without using any additional information on the number, times, and types of stimulus changes. Here, two relatively simple, biologically realistic change point detection methods are compared with two common analysis methods. The four methods are applied to intra- and extracellularly recorded responses of […]

Published on October 1, 2019