Journal article
Associative learning in a network model of Hermissenda crassicornis: I. Theory
Biological cybernetics, Vol.68(2), pp.125-133
12/1992
DOI: 10.1007/BF00201434
PMID: 1486137
Abstract
A time-varying Resistance-Capacitance (RC) circuit computer model was constructed based on known membrane and synaptic properties of the visualvestibular network of the marine snail Hermissenda crassicornis. Specific biophysical properties and synaptic connections of identified neurons are represented as lumped parameters (circuit elements) in the model; in the computer simulation, differential equations are approximated by difference equations. The model's output, membrane potential, an indirect measure of firing frequency, closely parallels the behavioral and electrophysiologic outputs of Hermissenda in response to the same input stimuli presented during and after associative learning. The parallelism of the computer modeled and the biologic outputs suggests that the model captures the features necessary and sufficient for associative learning.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Associative learning in a network model of Hermissenda crassicornis: I. Theory
- Creators
- Susan A. WernessS. Dale FayKim T. Blackwell - Environmental Research Institute of MichiganThomas P. VoglDaniel L. Alkon - National Institutes of Health
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Biological cybernetics, Vol.68(2), pp.125-133
- DOI
- 10.1007/BF00201434
- PMID
- 1486137
- NLM abbreviation
- Biol Cybern
- ISSN
- 0340-1200
- eISSN
- 1432-0770
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/1992
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984446550702771
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