Network design and the brain

S Navlakha, Z Bar-Joseph, AL Barth - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Neural circuits have evolved to accommodate similar information processing challenges as
those faced by engineered systems. Here, we compare neural versus engineering strategies …

Diffusion markers of dendritic density and arborization in gray matter predict differences in intelligence

E Genç, C Fraenz, C Schlüter, P Friedrich… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Previous research has demonstrated that individuals with higher intelligence are more likely
to have larger gray matter volume in brain areas predominantly located in parieto-frontal …

Structural plasticity for neuromorphic networks with electropolymerized dendritic PEDOT connections

K Janzakova, I Balafrej, A Kumar, N Garg… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Neural networks are powerful tools for solving complex problems, but finding the right
network topology for a given task remains an open question. Biology uses neurogenesis …

A soft-pruning method applied during training of spiking neural networks for in-memory computing applications

Y Shi, L Nguyen, S Oh, X Liu, D Kuzum - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Inspired from the computational efficiency of the biological brain, spiking neural networks
(SNNs) emulate biological neural networks, neural codes, dynamics, and circuitry. SNNs …

Higher VO2max is associated with thicker cortex and lower grey matter blood flow in older adults

G Olivo, J Nilsson, B Garzón, A Lebedev, A Wåhlin… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
VO2max (maximal oxygen consumption), a validated measure of aerobic fitness, has been
associated with better cerebral artery compliance and measures of brain morphology, such …

Surrogate-assisted evolutionary search of spiking neural architectures in liquid state machines

Y Zhou, Y Jin, J Ding - Neurocomputing, 2020 - Elsevier
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are believed to be a powerful neural computation
framework inspired by the vivo neurons. As a class of recurrent SNNs, liquid state machines …

Estimated gray matter volume rapidly changes after a short motor task

G Olivo, M Lövdén, A Manzouri, L Terlau… - Cerebral …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Skill learning induces changes in estimates of gray matter volume (GMV) in the human
brain, commonly detectable with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Rapid changes in …

[HTML][HTML] Structural plasticity on an accelerated analog neuromorphic hardware system

S Billaudelle, B Cramer, MA Petrovici, K Schreiber… - Neural Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
In computational neuroscience, as well as in machine learning, neuromorphic devices
promise an accelerated and scalable alternative to neural network simulations. Their neural …

Emergence of stable synaptic clusters on dendrites through synaptic rewiring

T Limbacher, R Legenstein - Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The connectivity structure of neuronal networks in cortex is highly dynamic. This ongoing
cortical rewiring is assumed to serve important functions for learning and memory. We …

[PDF][PDF] A Survey of Learning Spiking Neural P Systems and A Novel Instance.

Y Chen, Y Chen, G Zhang, P Paul, T Wu… - International Journal …, 2021 - researchgate.net
In the last few decades membrane computing has established itself as an important branch
of natural computing. Investigating computational power, complexity aspects and real-world …