Mechanisms, Symbols, and Models Underlying Cognition: First International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2005, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, June 15-18, 2005, Proceedings, Part I

Front Matter....Pages -
On the Use of the Computational Paradigm in Neurophysiology and Cognitive Science....Pages 1-15
Modules, Layers, Hierarchies, and Loops Where Artificial Intelligence Meets Ethology and Neuroscience – In Context of Action Selection....Pages 16-26
A Unified Perspective on Explaining Dynamics by Anticipatory State Properties....Pages 27-37
A Novel Intrinsic Wave Phenomenon in Low Excitable Biological Media....Pages 38-47
Conceptual Idea of Natural Mechanisms of Recognition, Purposeful Thinking and Potential of Its Technical Application....Pages 48-57
Simulation of Orientation Contrast Sensitive Cell Behavior in TiViPE....Pages 58-67
Formulation and Validation of a Method for Classifying Neurons from Multielectrode Recordings....Pages 68-76
Gap-Junctions Promote Synchrony in a Network of Inhibitory Interneurons in the Presence of Heterogeneities and Noise....Pages 77-85
A Conceptual Model of Amphibian’s Tectum Opticum with Probabilistic Coded Outputs....Pages 86-94
Realistic Stimulation Through Advanced Dynamic-Clamp Protocols....Pages 95-105
Interacting Slow and Fast Dynamics in Precise Spiking-Bursting Neurons....Pages 106-115
An Integral Model of Spreading Depression: From Neuron Channels to Field Potentials....Pages 116-122
Separation of Extracellular Spikes: When Wavelet Based Methods Outperform the Principle Component Analysis....Pages 123-132
Structural Statistical Properties of the Connectivity Could Underlie the Difference in Activity Propagation Velocities in Visual and Olfactory Cortices....Pages 133-142
Rules and Roles of Dendritic Spikes in CA1 Pyramidal Cells: A Computational Study....Pages 143-149
Slow Conductances Encode Stimulus History into Spike Shapes....Pages 150-155
Comparison of Plasticity of Self-optimizing Neural Networks and Natural Neural Networks....Pages 156-165
Evaluation of Neuronal Firing Densities via Simulation of a Jump-Diffusion Process....Pages 166-175
Gaussian Processes and Neuronal Modeling....Pages 176-185
On the Moments of Firing Numbers in Diffusion Neuronal Models with Refractoriness....Pages 186-194
Fluctuation Dynamics in Electroencephalogram Time Series....Pages 195-202
Modelling of Dysfunctions in the Neuronal Control of the Lower Urinary Tract....Pages 203-212
Coding Strategies in Early Stages of the Somatosensory System....Pages 213-222
Auditory Nerve Encoding of High-Frequency Spectral Information....Pages 223-232
Multielectrode Analysis of Information Flow Through Cat Primary Visual Cortex....Pages 233-241
Towards Evolutionary DNA Computing....Pages 242-257
A Linear Solution of Subset Sum Problem by Using Membrane Creation....Pages 258-267
A Study of the Robustness of the EGFR Signalling Cascade Using Continuous Membrane Systems....Pages 268-278
A Tool for Implementing and Exploring SBM Models: Universal 1D Invertible Cellular Automata....Pages 279-289
Network of Evolutionary Processors with Splicing Rules....Pages 290-299
Network of Evolutionary Processors with Splicing Rules and Forbidding Context....Pages 300-309
A Multiplexed Current Source Portable Stimulator Architecture for a Visual Cortical Neuroprosthesis....Pages 310-318
An Augmented Reality Visual Prothesis for People Affected by Tunneling Vision....Pages 319-326
Eye Tracking in Coloured Image Scenes Represented by Ambisonic Fields of Musical Instrument Sounds....Pages 327-337
Avoidance Behavior Controlled by a Model of Vertebrate Midbrain Mechanisms....Pages 338-345
Transition Cells and Neural Fields for Navigation and Planning....Pages 346-355
Spatial Navigation Based on Novelty Mediated Autobiographical Memory....Pages 356-365
Vision and Grasping: Humans vs. Robots....Pages 366-375
Evolved Neural Reflex-Oscillators for Walking Machines....Pages 376-385
A Haptic System for the Lucs Haptic Hand I....Pages 386-395
Action-Based Cognition: How Robots with No Sensory System Orient Themselves in an Open Field Box....Pages 396-404
A Robotics Inspired Method of Modeling Accessible Open Space to Help Blind People in the Orientation and Traveling Tasks....Pages 405-415
A Scientific Point of View on Perceptions....Pages 416-426
Reasoning by Assumption: Formalisation and Analysis of Human Reasoning Traces....Pages 427-436
Aligning Reference Terminologies and Knowledge Bases in the Health Care Domain....Pages 437-446
Predicting Mortality in the Intensive Care Using Episodes....Pages 447-458
A Fuzzy Temporal Diagnosis Algorithm and a Hypothesis Discrimination Proposal....Pages 459-468
Spatial Reasoning Based on Rules....Pages 469-480
Key Aspects of the Diagen Conceptual Model for Medical Diagnosis....Pages 481-488
Connectionist Contribution to Building Real-World Ontologies....Pages 489-497
Self Assembling Graphs....Pages 498-507
Knowledge Modeling for the Traffic Sign Recognition Task....Pages 508-517
Interval-Valued Neural Multi-adjoint Logic Programs....Pages 518-527
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