Sentences with phrase «simple circuit models»
He cautions there is a huge gap between the simple response of single - celled animals and the cognitive abilities of developed species, but adds there is no doubt that a combined set of simple circuit models will have more complex behaviour.
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Working with the Wilson - Cowan model, a widely - used model in computational neuroscience that describes the average activity of populations of interconnected neurons, Alonso has designed a new mathematical tool to help other neuroscientists explore the broad spectrum of responses possible from a simple neural circuit.
Researchers are also developing rudimentary models of signaling networks in cells and simple brain circuits.
Di Ventra's team took advantage of the development this year of memristors — electrical resistors that retain a memory of earlier voltages or currents applied and vary their resistance accordingly — to design a simple circuit that models the amoeba's gel - sol system.
They also hope to use what they learn from simple models of different tissue types to ultimately build functional human tissues like lung and kidney and neural circuits using larger - scale techniques.
«We are exploring this through modelling information processing in parts of the insect brain, and we find that often, exceedingly difficult tasks, for example in visual pattern recognition or floral scent learning, can be solved with extremely simple neural circuits.