The science of emotion has been using folk psychology categories derived from philosophy to search for the brain basis of emotion. The last two decades of neuroscience research have brought us to the brink of a paradi...
详细信息
The science of emotion has been using folk psychology categories derived from philosophy to search for the brain basis of emotion. The last two decades of neuroscience research have brought us to the brink of a paradigm shift in understanding the workings of the brain, however, setting the stage to revolutionize our understanding of what emotions are and how they work. In this article, we begin with the structure and function of the brain, and from there deduce what the biological basis of emotions might be. The answer is a brain-based, computational account called the theory of constructed emotion.
AnalyseCet article est consacré à l’étude des algorithmes de codage d’images de télévision du type MICdifférentiel à prédiction adaptative. L’adaptativité peut jouer sur...
详细信息
Analyse
Cet article est consacré à l’étude des algorithmes de codage d’images de télévision du type MICdifférentiel à prédiction adaptative. L’adaptativité peut jouer sur le prédicteur et aussi sur le quantificateur. L’auteur pose le problème et rappelle les propriétés de la source (structure des images) qui serviront de base à l’adaptativité du prédicteur. Divers algorithmes de prédiction adaptative sont décrits et certaines de leurs caractéristiques telles que l’efficacité en réduction de la dynamique de l’erreur de prédiction et la susceptibilité aux erreurs de transmission sont comparées. Une annexe traite de l’optimalisation d’un prédicteur fixe selon deux types de critère.
Functional motor disorders (FMDs) are distinguished by signs that lack congruence with recognised patterns of organic disease and show inconsistency over time. Their pathophysiology is poorly understood, but there is ...
详细信息
Functional motor disorders (FMDs) are distinguished by signs that lack congruence with recognised patterns of organic disease and show inconsistency over time. Their pathophysiology is poorly understood, but there is evidence that irregularities in perceptual and cognitive processing lie at the heart of these conditions. Here, we draw on a predictive coding account of functional neurological disorders to study perceptual decision-making in three groups: 20 patients with FMDs (14 with functional movements and 6 with functional weakness), 20 with phenotypically-matched organic motor disorders, and 20 age-matched healthy controls. We examine four cognitive domains with putative roles in FMD pathogenesis: attention, expectations, sensory processing (perceptual sensitivity), and metacognition (introspective evaluation of performance). We augmented a dual-task paradigm, manipulating the visual contrast required for target detection to examine these domains in one design. With sensory input (stimulus contrast) psychometrically adjusted to staircase target detection at a fixed level for all groups, the FMD group exhibited statistically equivalent attentional, expectational and metacognitive processing to healthy controls. However, we demonstrate Bayesian evidence and a frequentist trend that FMD patients require higher visual contrast than controls to maintain the same detection sensitivity (BF10 = 8.1, p(hoim) = .066). This was statistically equivalent to the visual contrast required by the organic group, and unlikely to be accounted for by medication use or comorbid psychopathology. The organic group showed differences in processing of attention and expectations for target detection that were not observed in either healthy controls or the functional group. The distinctive behavioural profile of FMDs may arise from abnormalities in basic sensory processing, while higher attentional, expectational and metacognitive mechanisms remain intact. Conceptualising functional neurol
predictive coding theories posit that neural networks learn statistical regularities in the environment for comparison with actual outcomes, signaling a prediction error (PE) when sensory deviation occurs. PE studies ...
详细信息
predictive coding theories posit that neural networks learn statistical regularities in the environment for comparison with actual outcomes, signaling a prediction error (PE) when sensory deviation occurs. PE studies in audition have capitalized on low-frequency event-related potentials (LF-ERPs), such as the mismatch negativity. However, local cortical activity is well-indexed by higher-frequency bands [high-gamma band (H.): 80-150 Hz]. We compared patterns of human H. and LF-ERPs in deviance detection using electrocorticographic recordings from subdural electrodes over frontal and temporal cortices. Patients listened to trains of task-irrelevant tones in two conditions differing in the predictability of a deviation from repetitive background stimuli (fully predictable vs. unpredictable deviants). We found deviance-related responses in both frequency bands over lateral temporal and inferior frontal cortex, with an earlier latency for H. than for LF-ERPs. Critically, frontal H. activity but not LF-ERPs discriminated between fully predictable and unpredictable changes, with frontal cortex sensitive to unpredictable events. The results highlight the role of frontal cortex and H. activity in deviance detection and PE generation.
In this opinion paper, we describe a combined view of functional and effective brain connectivity along with the free-energy principle for investigating persistent disruptions in brain networks of patients with focal ...
详细信息
In this opinion paper, we describe a combined view of functional and effective brain connectivity along with the free-energy principle for investigating persistent disruptions in brain networks of patients with focal epilepsy. These changes are likely reflected in effective connectivity along the cortical hierarchy and construct the basis of increased local functional connectivity in focal epilepsy. We propose a testable framework based on dynamic causal modelling and functional connectivity analysis with the capacity of explaining commonly observed connectivity changes during interictal periods. We then hypothesise their possible relation with disrupted freeenergy minimisation in the Bayesian brain. This may offer a new approach for neuroimaging to specifically develop and address hypotheses regarding the network pathomechanisms underlying epileptic phenotypes.
This work presents first simulation results substantiating a previously proposed conceptual model of computation in neocortical architecture [E. Korner, M.-O. Gewaltig, U. Korner, A. Richter, T. Rodemann, A model of c...
详细信息
This work presents first simulation results substantiating a previously proposed conceptual model of computation in neocortical architecture [E. Korner, M.-O. Gewaltig, U. Korner, A. Richter, T. Rodemann, A model of computation in neocortical architecture, Neural Networks 12 (1999) 989-1005]. This model gives a detailed functional interpretation of the six-layered columnar cortical architecture and related subcortical structures. It hypothesizes three interacting processing systems at each stage of the cortical hierarchy: The A-system (middle cortical layers) accomplishes fast bottom-up processing where the first spike wave traveling up the cortical hierarchy can activate a coarse initial hypothesis at each level. In the B-system (superficial layers) the initial hypothesis is refined by slower iterative processes involving feedback. Finally, the C-system. (deep layers) represents the local hypothesis of a macrocolumn which is fed back to the B-system of a lower level inducing expectations and predictions for the present and future input signals. These ideas are illustrated by an example implementation of the microcircuitry in a single cortical macrocolumn based on cell assemblies and associative memories. In a second step we have integrated our model at the level of V4 into a large scale implementation of the visual system involving several primary and higher visual cortical areas as well as parts of the hippocampal formation, and subcortical structures involved in generating eye saccades. With this model we can demonstrate object classification and the learning of new object representations. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Various interframe coding methods have been devised to reduce the cost of television signal transmission. Some degradation still remains, however, because prediction efficiency is lowered in uncovered background areas...
详细信息
Various interframe coding methods have been devised to reduce the cost of television signal transmission. Some degradation still remains, however, because prediction efficiency is lowered in uncovered background areas which appear behind moving objects. This paper proposes an uncovered background predictive coding algorithm, which increases prediction efficiency. Prediction efficiency is evaluated by using a simple signal model and real television signals. Experimental results show that the information generation rate is reduced to 78 percent as compared to that of previous frame predictive coding when the displacement is 10 pels/frame.
Some experiments have been conducted to investigate data compression of earth observation satellite data, particularly imaging sensor data. Two types of data compression algorithms, information lossless and informatio...
详细信息
Linear predictive coding (LPC) computes predictive parameters using autocorrelation coefficients. Due to the demand of a large amount of computation time, the method has significantly reduced its value in real-time ap...
详细信息
Linear predictive coding (LPC) computes predictive parameters using autocorrelation coefficients. Due to the demand of a large amount of computation time, the method has significantly reduced its value in real-time applications. This paper describes a new method for speedy computation of the autocorrelation coefficients using Fermat number transform (FNT). It is found that there exists a fast computational algorithm for FNT which has a computational structure similar to the fast Fourier transform's (FFT). Since the fast Fermat number transformation (FFNT) and FFT have similar computational structures, we may adopt readily available FFT VLSI hardware structure for real-time implementation of the FFNT. A verification of the FFNT on an MC 68000 single-board computer has been performed and the result was quite satisfactory.
A fast block-matching algorithm for motion estimation is presented. It is based on a logarithmic step where, in each search step, only four locations are tested. For a motion displacement of w pels/frame, this techniq...
详细信息
A fast block-matching algorithm for motion estimation is presented. It is based on a logarithmic step where, in each search step, only four locations are tested. For a motion displacement of w pels/frame, this technique requires 5+4 log/sub 2/w computations to locate the best match. Using sequences of CIF standard pictures, the interframe motion compensated prediction error with this technique is compared to the other fast methods. The computational complexity of this algorithm is also compared against those methods.< >
暂无评论