Evidence indicates that sharp-wave ripples (SWRs) are primary network events supporting memory processes. However, some studies demonstrate that even after disruption of awake SWRs the animal can still learn spatial task or that SWRs may be not necessary to establish a cognitive map of the environment. Moreover, we have found recently that despite a deficit of sleep SWRs the APP/PS1 mice, a model of Alzheimer's disease, show undisturbed spatial reference memory.
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Adaptive tracking control of mobile robots requires the ability to follow a trajectory generated by a moving target. The conventional analysis of adaptive tracking uses energy minimization to study the convergence and robustness of the tracking error when the mobile robot follows a desired trajectory. However, in the case that the moving target generates trajectories with uncertainties, a common Lyapunov-like function for energy minimization may be extremely difficult to determine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA dynamic representation of neural population responses asserts that motor cortex is a flexible pattern generator sending rhythmic, oscillatory signals to generate multiphasic patterns of movement. This raises a question concerning the design and control of new computing machines that mimic the oscillatory patterns and multiphasic patterns seen in neural systems. To address this issue, we design an interneural computing machine (INCM) made of plastic random interneural connections.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe describe a decirculation process which marks perturbations of network structure and neural updating that are necessary for evolutionary neural networks to proceed from one circulating state to another. Two aspects of control parameters, screen updating and flow diagrams, are developed to quantify such perturbations, and hence to manage the dynamics of evolutionary neural networks. A dynamic state-shifting algorithm is derived from the decirculation process.
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