V. Maki-Marttunen, J.M. Cortes, M. Villareal and D.R. Chialvo. Disruption of transfer entropy and inter-hemispheric brain functional connectivity in patients with disorder of consciousness. Computational NeuroScience (CNS) 2013 Meeting. BMC Neuroscience 2013, 14(Suppl 1):P83 [pdf] CNS 2013 Best Student Poster Award Winner. Recent studies suggest that the functional organization of brain networks is altered in patients with severe disorders of consciousness (DOC), including coma [1]. A better characterization of these […]
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J.M. Cortes, D. Marinazzo, P. Series, M.W. Oram, T.J. Sejnowski and M.C.W. van Rossum. Neural adaptation reduces energy cost while preserving coding accuracy. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2010 Neurons in the primary visual cortex initially respond vigorously when a preferred stimulus is presented, but typically adapt as stimulation continues. The functional consequences of adaptation are unclear. Typically a reduction of firing reduces single neuron accuracy, but it has been […]
J.M. Cortes, D. Marinazzo, P. Tudela and E. Madrid. Causal connectivity analysis of tracking faces in presence of repeated distractors during working memory tasks. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2009 Recognition of a specific visual target among equally familiar distracters requires neural mechanisms for tracking items in working memory. High Density EEG recordings were obtained from sixteen right-handed normal participants while they performed a visual working memory task in which […]
L. Mancera, R. Jimenez-Galan, J.M. Cortes. Visual Information Processing trough a simulated retina: Linear vs Bayesian reconstruction of natural movies. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2009 In vision neuroscience much of the knowledge about information processing comes from experiments in presence of highly reduced stimuli: orientated bars, drifting gratings or dots and sometimes combinations of them. Very often, the implicit linearity of the stimuli works quite well to explain linear […]
J.M. Cortes, D. Marinazzo, P. Series, M. Oram, T.J. Sejnowski and M.C.W. van Rossum. Heterogeneous adaptation effects on visual population coding efficiency. COSYNE 2008: 5th Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting The cellular and synaptic mechanisms underlying visual adaptation have extensively been debated during the last years (for reviews see Kohn 2007 and Schwartz 2007). However, the effect of neural adaptation on information coding is difficult to study experimentally as it […]
J. M. Cortes, P. L. Garrido, J. Marro and J. J. Torres. Switching between memories in neural automata with synaptic noise. Neurocomputing 58-60: 67-71, 2004 [pdf] We present a stochastic neural automata in which activity fluctuations and synaptic intensities evolve at different temperature, the latter moving through a set of stored patterns. The network thus exhibits various retrieval phases, including one which depicts continuous switching between attractors. The switching may […]
J.M. Cortes, T.J. Sejnowski and M.C.W. van Rossum. Reverse Engineering: Weight dynamics consistent with experimental weight distributions. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2007 The strengths of synaptic connections that are responsible for perception and memory change on time scales ranging from milliseconds to many days. A key question is how memories can be made stable over long periods of time despite the ongoing synaptic plasticity. The distribution of synaptic weights […]
D. Marinazzo, J.M. Cortes, M. Postlethwaite and M. Hennig. Synaptic depression and multi-scale phenomena. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2007 How short term plasticity (STP) affects synaptic transmission has been widely studied during the last decade (Zucker and Regehr, 2001). During repetitive stimulation, a postsynaptic response can be facilitated or depressed or shaped by a combination of both. These effects have been successfully explained by models focusing on two main […]
J.M.A.M. Kusters, A.P.R. Theuvenet, D.L. Ypey, W.P.M. van Meerwijk, J.M. Cortes and C.C.A.M. Gielen. Calcium Oscillations driving an excitable membrane: Hysteresis and Bi-stability. Biophysical Society: 51th Annual Meeting. Biophysical Journal 257A-257A Suppl. S, 2007 In normal rat kidney (NRK) fibroblasts the excitable membrane exhibits action potentials caused by an intracellular, IP3-mediated calcium oscillation (CaO). We modeled that process in detail and applied bifurcation analysis to investigate the dynamic behaviour of […]
J. J. Torres, J. M. Cortes and J. Marro. Instability of attractors in auto-associative networks with bio-inspired fast synaptic noise. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3512: 161-167, 2005 [pdf] We studied auto–associative networks in which synapses are noisy on a time scale much shorter that the one for the neuron dynamics. In our model a presynaptic noise causes postsynaptic depression as recently observed in neurobiological systems. This results in a […]
J. M. Cortes, P. L. Garrido, H. J. Kappen, J. Marro, C. Morillas, D. Navidad and J. J. Torres. Algorithms for identification and categorization. AIP Conference Proceedings 779: 178-184, 2005 [pdf] This article reports on a series of efforts during the last decade aimed at modeling in a computer the cooperative properties that, according to some experimental evidence, could be relevant for the processing of patterns in a brain. In […]
J. Marro, J. M. Cortes and P. I. Hurtado. Modeling nonequilibrium phase transitions and critical behavior in complex systems. Computer Physics Communications 147: 115-119, 2002 [pdf] We comment on some recent, yet unpublished results concerning instabilities in complex systems and their applications. In particular, we briefly describe main observations during extensive computer simulations of two lattice nonequilibrium models. One exhibits robust and efficient processes of pattern recognition under synaptic coherent […]