---
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Grounding autonomous behavior in the nervous system is a fundamental challenge
for neuroscience. In particular, self-organized behavioral development provides
more questions than answers. Are there special functional units for curiosity,
motivation, and creativity? This paper argues that these features can be grounded
in synaptic plasticity itself, without requiring any higher-level constructs.
We propose differential extrinsic plasticity (DEP) as a new synaptic rule for
self-learning systems and apply it to a number of complex robotic systems as a
test case. Without specifying any purpose or goal, seemingly purposeful and adaptive
rhythmic behavior is developed, displaying a certain level of sensorimotor intelligence.
These surprising results require no systemspecific modifications of the DEP rule.
They rather arise from the underlying mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking,which
is due to the tight brain body environment coupling. The new synaptic rule is
biologically plausible and would be an interesting target for neurobiological
investigation. We also argue that this neuronal mechanism may have been a catalyst
in natural evolution.
author:
- first_name: Ralf
full_name: Der, Ralf
last_name: Der
- first_name: Georg S
full_name: Martius, Georg S
id: 3A276B68-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Martius
citation:
ama: Der R, Martius GS. Novel plasticity rule can explain the development of sensorimotor
intelligence. PNAS. 2015;112(45):E6224-E6232. doi:10.1073/pnas.1508400112
apa: Der, R., & Martius, G. S. (2015). Novel plasticity rule can explain the
development of sensorimotor intelligence. PNAS. National Academy of Sciences.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1508400112
chicago: Der, Ralf, and Georg S Martius. “Novel Plasticity Rule Can Explain the
Development of Sensorimotor Intelligence.” PNAS. National Academy of Sciences,
2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1508400112.
ieee: R. Der and G. S. Martius, “Novel plasticity rule can explain the development
of sensorimotor intelligence,” PNAS, vol. 112, no. 45. National Academy
of Sciences, pp. E6224–E6232, 2015.
ista: Der R, Martius GS. 2015. Novel plasticity rule can explain the development
of sensorimotor intelligence. PNAS. 112(45), E6224–E6232.
mla: Der, Ralf, and Georg S. Martius. “Novel Plasticity Rule Can Explain the Development
of Sensorimotor Intelligence.” PNAS, vol. 112, no. 45, National Academy
of Sciences, 2015, pp. E6224–32, doi:10.1073/pnas.1508400112.
short: R. Der, G.S. Martius, PNAS 112 (2015) E6224–E6232.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:52:47Z
date_published: 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:51:40Z
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project:
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grant_number: '291734'
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title: Novel plasticity rule can explain the development of sensorimotor intelligence
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_id: '1658'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) models have become a central tool for
understanding the dynamics of complex reaction networks and the importance of
stochasticity in the underlying biochemical processes. When such models are employed
to answer questions in applications, in order to ensure that the model provides
a sufficiently accurate representation of the real system, it is of vital importance
that the model parameters are inferred from real measured data. This, however,
is often a formidable task and all of the existing methods fail in one case or
the other, usually because the underlying CTMC model is high-dimensional and computationally
difficult to analyze. The parameter inference methods that tend to scale best
in the dimension of the CTMC are based on so-called moment closure approximations.
However, there exists a large number of different moment closure approximations
and it is typically hard to say a priori which of the approximations is the most
suitable for the inference procedure. Here, we propose a moment-based parameter
inference method that automatically chooses the most appropriate moment closure
method. Accordingly, contrary to existing methods, the user is not required to
be experienced in moment closure techniques. In addition to that, our method adaptively
changes the approximation during the parameter inference to ensure that always
the best approximation is used, even in cases where different approximations are
best in different regions of the parameter space.
alternative_title:
- LNCS
author:
- first_name: Sergiy
full_name: Bogomolov, Sergiy
id: 369D9A44-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Bogomolov
orcid: 0000-0002-0686-0365
- first_name: Thomas A
full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A
id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Henzinger
orcid: 0000−0002−2985−7724
- first_name: Andreas
full_name: Podelski, Andreas
last_name: Podelski
- first_name: Jakob
full_name: Ruess, Jakob
id: 4A245D00-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Ruess
orcid: 0000-0003-1615-3282
- first_name: Christian
full_name: Schilling, Christian
last_name: Schilling
citation:
ama: Bogomolov S, Henzinger TA, Podelski A, Ruess J, Schilling C. Adaptive moment
closure for parameter inference of biochemical reaction networks. 2015;9308:77-89.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-23401-4_8
apa: 'Bogomolov, S., Henzinger, T. A., Podelski, A., Ruess, J., & Schilling,
C. (2015). Adaptive moment closure for parameter inference of biochemical reaction
networks. Presented at the CMSB: Computational Methods in Systems Biology, Nantes,
France: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23401-4_8'
chicago: Bogomolov, Sergiy, Thomas A Henzinger, Andreas Podelski, Jakob Ruess, and
Christian Schilling. “Adaptive Moment Closure for Parameter Inference of Biochemical
Reaction Networks.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23401-4_8.
ieee: S. Bogomolov, T. A. Henzinger, A. Podelski, J. Ruess, and C. Schilling, “Adaptive
moment closure for parameter inference of biochemical reaction networks,” vol.
9308. Springer, pp. 77–89, 2015.
ista: Bogomolov S, Henzinger TA, Podelski A, Ruess J, Schilling C. 2015. Adaptive
moment closure for parameter inference of biochemical reaction networks. 9308,
77–89.
mla: Bogomolov, Sergiy, et al. Adaptive Moment Closure for Parameter Inference
of Biochemical Reaction Networks. Vol. 9308, Springer, 2015, pp. 77–89, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-23401-4_8.
short: S. Bogomolov, T.A. Henzinger, A. Podelski, J. Ruess, C. Schilling, 9308 (2015)
77–89.
conference:
end_date: 2015-09-18
location: Nantes, France
name: 'CMSB: Computational Methods in Systems Biology'
start_date: 2015-09-16
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:18Z
date_published: 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-02-21T16:17:24Z
day: '01'
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grant_number: '267989'
name: Quantitative Reactive Modeling
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call_identifier: FWF
grant_number: Z211
name: The Wittgenstein Prize
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call_identifier: FWF
grant_number: S 11407_N23
name: Rigorous Systems Engineering
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---
_id: '1697'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Motion tracking is a challenge the visual system has to solve by reading out
the retinal population. It is still unclear how the information from different
neurons can be combined together to estimate the position of an object. Here we
recorded a large population of ganglion cells in a dense patch of salamander and
guinea pig retinas while displaying a bar moving diffusively. We show that the
bar’s position can be reconstructed from retinal activity with a precision in
the hyperacuity regime using a linear decoder acting on 100+ cells. We then took
advantage of this unprecedented precision to explore the spatial structure of
the retina’s population code. The classical view would have suggested that the
firing rates of the cells form a moving hill of activity tracking the bar’s position.
Instead, we found that most ganglion cells in the salamander fired sparsely and
idiosyncratically, so that their neural image did not track the bar. Furthermore,
ganglion cell activity spanned an area much larger than predicted by their receptive
fields, with cells coding for motion far in their surround. As a result, population
redundancy was high, and we could find multiple, disjoint subsets of neurons that
encoded the trajectory with high precision. This organization allows for diverse
collections of ganglion cells to represent high-accuracy motion information in
a form easily read out by downstream neural circuits.
acknowledgement: 'This work was supported by grants EY 014196 and EY 017934 to MJB,
ANR OPTIMA, the French State program Investissements d’Avenir managed by the Agence
Nationale de la Recherche [LIFESENSES: ANR-10-LABX-65], and by a EC grant from the
Human Brain Project (CLAP) to OM, the Austrian Research Foundation FWF P25651 to
VBS and GT. VBS is partially supported by contracts MEC, Spain (Grant No. AYA2010-
22111-C03-02, Grant No. AYA2013-48623-C2-2 and FEDER Funds).'
article_number: e1004304
author:
- first_name: Olivier
full_name: Marre, Olivier
last_name: Marre
- first_name: Vicente
full_name: Botella Soler, Vicente
id: 421234E8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Botella Soler
orcid: 0000-0002-8790-1914
- first_name: Kristina
full_name: Simmons, Kristina
last_name: Simmons
- first_name: Thierry
full_name: Mora, Thierry
last_name: Mora
- first_name: Gasper
full_name: Tkacik, Gasper
id: 3D494DCA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Tkacik
orcid: 0000-0002-6699-1455
- first_name: Michael
full_name: Berry, Michael
last_name: Berry
citation:
ama: Marre O, Botella Soler V, Simmons K, Mora T, Tkačik G, Berry M. High accuracy
decoding of dynamical motion from a large retinal population. PLoS Computational
Biology. 2015;11(7). doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004304
apa: Marre, O., Botella Soler, V., Simmons, K., Mora, T., Tkačik, G., & Berry,
M. (2015). High accuracy decoding of dynamical motion from a large retinal population.
PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004304
chicago: Marre, Olivier, Vicente Botella Soler, Kristina Simmons, Thierry Mora,
Gašper Tkačik, and Michael Berry. “High Accuracy Decoding of Dynamical Motion
from a Large Retinal Population.” PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library
of Science, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004304.
ieee: O. Marre, V. Botella Soler, K. Simmons, T. Mora, G. Tkačik, and M. Berry,
“High accuracy decoding of dynamical motion from a large retinal population,”
PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 11, no. 7. Public Library of Science,
2015.
ista: Marre O, Botella Soler V, Simmons K, Mora T, Tkačik G, Berry M. 2015. High
accuracy decoding of dynamical motion from a large retinal population. PLoS Computational
Biology. 11(7), e1004304.
mla: Marre, Olivier, et al. “High Accuracy Decoding of Dynamical Motion from a Large
Retinal Population.” PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 11, no. 7, e1004304,
Public Library of Science, 2015, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004304.
short: O. Marre, V. Botella Soler, K. Simmons, T. Mora, G. Tkačik, M. Berry, PLoS
Computational Biology 11 (2015).
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:31Z
date_published: 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:52:35Z
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abstract:
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text: 'The activity of a neural network is defined by patterns of spiking and silence
from the individual neurons. Because spikes are (relatively) sparse, patterns
of activity with increasing numbers of spikes are less probable, but, with more
spikes, the number of possible patterns increases. This tradeoff between probability
and numerosity is mathematically equivalent to the relationship between entropy
and energy in statistical physics. We construct this relationship for populations
of up to N = 160 neurons in a small patch of the vertebrate retina, using a combination
of direct and model-based analyses of experiments on the response of this network
to naturalistic movies. We see signs of a thermodynamic limit, where the entropy
per neuron approaches a smooth function of the energy per neuron as N increases.
The form of this function corresponds to the distribution of activity being poised
near an unusual kind of critical point. We suggest further tests of criticality,
and give a brief discussion of its functional significance. '
acknowledgement: "Research was supported in part by National Science Foundation Grants
PHY-1305525, PHY-1451171, and CCF-0939370, by National Institutes of Health Grant
R01 EY14196, and by Austrian Science Foundation Grant FWF P25651. Additional support
was provided by the\r\nFannie and John Hertz Foundation, by the Swartz Foundation,
by the W. M. Keck Foundation, and by the Simons Foundation."
author:
- first_name: Gasper
full_name: Tkacik, Gasper
id: 3D494DCA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Tkacik
orcid: 0000-0002-6699-1455
- first_name: Thierry
full_name: Mora, Thierry
last_name: Mora
- first_name: Olivier
full_name: Marre, Olivier
last_name: Marre
- first_name: Dario
full_name: Amodei, Dario
last_name: Amodei
- first_name: Stephanie
full_name: Palmer, Stephanie
last_name: Palmer
- first_name: Michael
full_name: Berry Ii, Michael
last_name: Berry Ii
- first_name: William
full_name: Bialek, William
last_name: Bialek
citation:
ama: Tkačik G, Mora T, Marre O, et al. Thermodynamics and signatures of criticality
in a network of neurons. PNAS. 2015;112(37):11508-11513. doi:10.1073/pnas.1514188112
apa: Tkačik, G., Mora, T., Marre, O., Amodei, D., Palmer, S., Berry Ii, M., &
Bialek, W. (2015). Thermodynamics and signatures of criticality in a network of
neurons. PNAS. National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1514188112
chicago: Tkačik, Gašper, Thierry Mora, Olivier Marre, Dario Amodei, Stephanie Palmer,
Michael Berry Ii, and William Bialek. “Thermodynamics and Signatures of Criticality
in a Network of Neurons.” PNAS. National Academy of Sciences, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1514188112.
ieee: G. Tkačik et al., “Thermodynamics and signatures of criticality in
a network of neurons,” PNAS, vol. 112, no. 37. National Academy of Sciences,
pp. 11508–11513, 2015.
ista: Tkačik G, Mora T, Marre O, Amodei D, Palmer S, Berry Ii M, Bialek W. 2015.
Thermodynamics and signatures of criticality in a network of neurons. PNAS. 112(37),
11508–11513.
mla: Tkačik, Gašper, et al. “Thermodynamics and Signatures of Criticality in a Network
of Neurons.” PNAS, vol. 112, no. 37, National Academy of Sciences, 2015,
pp. 11508–13, doi:10.1073/pnas.1514188112.
short: G. Tkačik, T. Mora, O. Marre, D. Amodei, S. Palmer, M. Berry Ii, W. Bialek,
PNAS 112 (2015) 11508–11513.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:33Z
date_published: 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:52:37Z
day: '15'
department:
- _id: GaTk
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1514188112
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- iso: eng
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project:
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publication_status: published
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title: Thermodynamics and signatures of criticality in a network of neurons
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...
---
_id: '1861'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Continuous-time Markov chains are commonly used in practice for modeling biochemical
reaction networks in which the inherent randomness of themolecular interactions
cannot be ignored. This has motivated recent research effort into methods for
parameter inference and experiment design for such models. The major difficulty
is that such methods usually require one to iteratively solve the chemical master
equation that governs the time evolution of the probability distribution of the
system. This, however, is rarely possible, and even approximation techniques remain
limited to relatively small and simple systems. An alternative explored in this
article is to base methods on only some low-order moments of the entire probability
distribution. We summarize the theory behind such moment-based methods for parameter
inference and experiment design and provide new case studies where we investigate
their performance.
acknowledgement: "HYCON2; EC; European Commission\r\n"
article_number: '8'
author:
- first_name: Jakob
full_name: Ruess, Jakob
id: 4A245D00-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Ruess
orcid: 0000-0003-1615-3282
- first_name: John
full_name: Lygeros, John
last_name: Lygeros
citation:
ama: Ruess J, Lygeros J. Moment-based methods for parameter inference and experiment
design for stochastic biochemical reaction networks. ACM Transactions on Modeling
and Computer Simulation. 2015;25(2). doi:10.1145/2688906
apa: Ruess, J., & Lygeros, J. (2015). Moment-based methods for parameter inference
and experiment design for stochastic biochemical reaction networks. ACM Transactions
on Modeling and Computer Simulation. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2688906
chicago: Ruess, Jakob, and John Lygeros. “Moment-Based Methods for Parameter Inference
and Experiment Design for Stochastic Biochemical Reaction Networks.” ACM Transactions
on Modeling and Computer Simulation. ACM, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1145/2688906.
ieee: J. Ruess and J. Lygeros, “Moment-based methods for parameter inference and
experiment design for stochastic biochemical reaction networks,” ACM Transactions
on Modeling and Computer Simulation, vol. 25, no. 2. ACM, 2015.
ista: Ruess J, Lygeros J. 2015. Moment-based methods for parameter inference and
experiment design for stochastic biochemical reaction networks. ACM Transactions
on Modeling and Computer Simulation. 25(2), 8.
mla: Ruess, Jakob, and John Lygeros. “Moment-Based Methods for Parameter Inference
and Experiment Design for Stochastic Biochemical Reaction Networks.” ACM Transactions
on Modeling and Computer Simulation, vol. 25, no. 2, 8, ACM, 2015, doi:10.1145/2688906.
short: J. Ruess, J. Lygeros, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation
25 (2015).
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:54:25Z
date_published: 2015-02-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:53:41Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: ToHe
- _id: GaTk
doi: 10.1145/2688906
intvolume: ' 25'
issue: '2'
language:
- iso: eng
month: '02'
oa_version: None
publication: ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation
publication_status: published
publisher: ACM
publist_id: '5238'
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: 1
status: public
title: Moment-based methods for parameter inference and experiment design for stochastic
biochemical reaction networks
type: journal_article
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 25
year: '2015'
...