Neural Information Processing: 14th International Conference, ICONIP 2007, Kitakyushu, Japan, November 13-16, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, Part I

Front Matter....Pages -
A Retinal Circuit Model Accounting for Functions of Amacrine Cells....Pages 1-6
Global Bifurcation Analysis of a Pyramidal Cell Model of the Primary Visual Cortex: Towards a Construction of Physiologically Plausible Model....Pages 7-17
Representation of Medial Axis from Synchronous Firing of Border-Ownership Selective Cells....Pages 18-26
Neural Mechanism for Extracting Object Features Critical for Visual Categorization Task....Pages 27-36
An Integrated Neuro-mechanical Model of C. elegans Forward Locomotion....Pages 37-47
Applying the String Method to Extract Bursting Information from Microelectrode Recordings in Subthalamic Nucleus and Substantia Nigra....Pages 48-53
Population Coding of Song Element Sequence in the Songbird Brain Nucleus HVC....Pages 54-63
Spontaneous Voltage Transients in Mammalian Retinal Ganglion Cells Dissociated by Vibration....Pages 64-72
Region-Based Encoding Method Using Multi-dimensional Gaussians for Networks of Spiking Neurons....Pages 73-82
Firing Pattern Estimation of Biological Neuron Models by Adaptive Observer....Pages 83-92
Thouless-Anderson-Palmer Equation for Associative Memory Neural Network Models with Fluctuating Couplings....Pages 93-101
Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity in Recurrently Connected Networks with Fixed External Inputs....Pages 102-111
A Comparative Study of Synchrony Measures for the Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Based on EEG....Pages 112-125
Reproducibility Analysis of Event-Related fMRI Experiments Using Laguerre Polynomials....Pages 126-134
The Effects of Theta Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation over the Human Primary Motor and Sensory Cortices on Cortico-Muscular Coherence....Pages 135-141
Interactions between Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity and Phase Response Curve Lead to Wireless Clustering....Pages 142-150
A Computational Model of Formation of Grid Field and Theta Phase Precession in the Entorhinal Cells....Pages 151-159
Working Memory Dynamics in a Flip-Flop Oscillations Network Model with Milnor Attractor....Pages 160-169
Corticopetal Acetylcholine: Possible Scenarios on the Role for Dynamic Organization of Quasi-Attractors....Pages 170-178
Tracking a Moving Target Using Chaotic Dynamics in a Recurrent Neural Network Model....Pages 179-188
A Generalised Entropy Based Associative Model....Pages 189-198
The Detection of an Approaching Sound Source Using Pulsed Neural Network....Pages 199-208
Sensitivity and Uniformity in Detecting Motion Artifacts....Pages 209-218
A Ring Model for the Development of Simple Cells in the Visual Cortex....Pages 219-227
Practical Recurrent Learning (PRL) in the Discrete Time Domain....Pages 228-237
Learning of Bayesian Discriminant Functions by a Layered Neural Network....Pages 238-247
RNN with a Recurrent Output Layer for Learning of Naturalness....Pages 248-257
Using Generalization Error Bounds to Train the Set Covering Machine....Pages 258-268
Model of Cue Extraction from Distractors by Active Recall....Pages 269-278
PLS Mixture Model for Online Dimension Reduction....Pages 279-288
Analysis on Bidirectional Associative Memories with Multiplicative Weight Noise....Pages 289-298
Fuzzy ARTMAP with Explicit and Implicit Weights....Pages 299-308
Neural Network Model of Forward Shift of CA1 Place Fields Towards Reward Location....Pages 309-316
A New Constructive Algorithm for Designing and Training Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 317-327
Effective Learning with Heterogeneous Neural Networks....Pages 328-337
Pattern-Based Reasoning System Using Self-incremental Neural Network for Propositional Logic....Pages 338-347
Effect of Spatial Attention in Early Vision for the Modulation of the Perception of Border-Ownership....Pages 348-357
Effectiveness of Scale Free Network to the Performance Improvement of a Morphological Associative Memory without a Kernel Image....Pages 358-364
Intensity Gradient Self-organizing Map for Cerebral Cortex Reconstruction....Pages 365-373
Feature Subset Selection Using Constructive Neural Nets with Minimal Computation by Measuring Contribution....Pages 374-384
Dynamic Link Matching between Feature Columns for Different Scale and Orientation....Pages 385-394
Perturbational Neural Networks for Incremental Learning in Virtual Learning System....Pages 395-404
Bifurcations of Renormalization Dynamics in Self-organizing Neural Networks....Pages 405-414
Variable Selection for Multivariate Time Series Prediction with Neural Networks....Pages 415-425
Ordering Process of Self-Organizing Maps Improved by Asymmetric Neighborhood Function....Pages 426-435
A Characterization of Simple Recurrent Neural Networks with Two Hidden Units as a Language Recognizer....Pages 436-445
Unbiased Likelihood Backpropagation Learning....Pages 446-455
The Local True Weight Decay Recursive Least Square Algorithm....Pages 456-465
Experimental Bayesian Generalization Error of Non-regular Models under Covariate Shift....Pages 466-476
Using Image Stimuli to Drive fMRI Analysis....Pages 477-486
Parallel Reinforcement Learning for Weighted Multi-criteria Model with Adaptive Margin....Pages 487-496
Convergence Behavior of Competitive Repetition-Suppression Clustering....Pages 497-506
Self-Organizing Clustering with Map of Nonlinear Varieties Representing Variation in One Class....Pages 507-516
An Automatic Speaker Recognition System....Pages 517-526
Modified Modulated Hebb-Oja Learning Rule: A Method for Biologically Plausible Principal Component Analysis....Pages 527-536
Orthogonal Shrinkage Methods for Nonparametric Regression under Gaussian Noise....Pages 537-546
A Subspace Method Based on Data Generation Model with Class Information....Pages 547-555
Hierarchical Feature Extraction for Compact Representation and Classification of Datasets....Pages 556-565
Principal Component Analysis for Sparse High-Dimensional Data....Pages 566-575
Hierarchical Bayesian Inference of Brain Activity....Pages 576-585
Neural Decoding of Movements: From Linear to Nonlinear Trajectory Models....Pages 586-595
Estimating Internal Variables of a Decision Maker’s Brain: A Model-Based Approach for Neuroscience....Pages 596-603
Visual Tracking Achieved by Adaptive Sampling from Hierarchical and Parallel Predictions....Pages 604-613
Bayesian System Identification of Molecular Cascades....Pages 614-624
Use of Circle-Segments as a Data Visualization Technique for Feature Selection in Pattern Classification....Pages 625-634
Extraction of Approximate Independent Components from Large Natural Scenes....Pages 635-642
Local Coordinates Alignment and Its Linearization....Pages 643-652
Walking Appearance Manifolds without Falling Off....Pages 653-662
Inverse-Halftoning for Error Diffusion Based on Statistical Mechanics of the Spin System....Pages 663-672
Chaotic Motif Sampler for Motif Discovery Using Statistical Values of Spike Time-Series....Pages 673-682
A Thermodynamical Search Algorithm for Feature Subset Selection....Pages 683-692
Solvable Performances of Optimization Neural Networks with Chaotic Noise and Stochastic Noise with Negative Autocorrelation....Pages 693-702
Solving the k -Winners-Take-All Problem and the Oligopoly Cournot-Nash Equilibrium Problem Using the General Projection Neural Networks....Pages 703-712
Optimization of Parametric Companding Function for an Efficient Coding....Pages 713-722
A Modified Soft-Shape-Context ICP Registration System of 3-D Point Data....Pages 723-732
Solution Method Using Correlated Noise for TSP....Pages 733-741
Bayesian Collaborative Predictors for General User Modeling Tasks....Pages 742-751
Discovery of Linear Non-Gaussian Acyclic Models in the Presence of Latent Classes....Pages 752-761
Efficient Incremental Learning Using Self-Organizing Neural Grove....Pages 762-770
Design of an Unsupervised Weight Parameter Estimation Method in Ensemble Learning....Pages 771-780
Sparse Super Symmetric Tensor Factorization....Pages 781-790
Probabilistic Tensor Analysis with Akaike and Bayesian Information Criteria....Pages 791-801
Decomposing EEG Data into Space-Time-Frequency Components Using Parallel Factor Analysis and Its Relation with Cerebral Blood Flow....Pages 802-810
Flexible Component Analysis for Sparse, Smooth, Nonnegative Coding or Representation....Pages 811-820
Appearance Models for Medical Volumes with Few Samples by Generalized 3D-PCA....Pages 821-830
Head Pose Estimation Based on Tensor Factorization....Pages 831-840
Kernel Maximum a Posteriori Classification with Error Bound Analysis....Pages 841-850
Comparison of Local Higher-Order Moment Kernel and Conventional Kernels in SVM for Texture Classification....Pages 851-860
Pattern Discovery for High-Dimensional Binary Datasets....Pages 861-872
Expand-and-Reduce Algorithm of Particle Swarm Optimization....Pages 873-881
Nonlinear Pattern Identification by Multi-layered GMDH-Type Neural Network Self-selecting Optimum Neural Network Architecture....Pages 882-891
Coordinated Control of Reaching and Grasping During Prehension Movement....Pages 892-901
Computer Simulation of Vestibuloocular Reflex Motor Learning Using a Realistic Cerebellar Cortical Neuronal Network Model....Pages 902-912
Reflex Contributions to the Directional Tuning of Arm Stiffness....Pages 913-922
Analysis of Variability of Human Reaching Movements Based on the Similarity Preservation of Arm Trajectories....Pages 923-932
Directional Properties of Human Hand Force Perception in the Maintenance of Arm Posture....Pages 933-942
Computational Understanding and Modeling of Filling-In Process at the Blind Spot....Pages 943-952
Biologically Motivated Face Selective Attention Model....Pages 953-962
Multi-dimensional Histogram-Based Image Segmentation....Pages 963-972
A Framework for Multi-view Gender Classification....Pages 973-982
Japanese Hand Sign Recognition System....Pages 983-992
An Image Warping Method for Temporal Subtraction Images Employing Smoothing of Shift Vectors on MDCT Images....Pages 993-1001
Conflicting Visual and Proprioceptive Reflex Responses During Reaching Movements....Pages 1002-1011
An Involuntary Muscular Response Induced by Perceived Visual Errors in Hand Position....Pages 1012-1020
Independence of Perception and Action for Grasping Positions....Pages 1021-1030
Handwritten Character Distinction Method Inspired by Human Vision Mechanism....Pages 1031-1040
Recent Advances in the Neocognitron....Pages 1041-1050
Engineering-Approach Accelerates Computational Understanding of V1–V2 Neural Properties....Pages 1051-1060
Recent Studies Around the Neocognitron....Pages 1061-1070
Toward Human Arm Attention and Recognition....Pages 1071-1080
Projection-Field-Type VLSI Convolutional Neural Networks Using Merged/Mixed Analog-Digital Approach....Pages 1081-1090
Optimality of Reaching Movements Based on Energetic Cost under the Influence of Signal-Dependent Noise....Pages 1091-1099
Influence of Neural Delay in Sensorimotor Systems on the Control Performance and Mechanism in Bicycle Riding....Pages 1100-1109
Global Localization for the Mobile Robot Based on Natural Number Recognition in Corridor Environment....Pages 1110-1119
A System Model for Real-Time Sensorimotor Processing in Brain....Pages 1120-1129
Perception of Two-Stroke Apparent Motion and Real Motion....Pages 1130-1139
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