LETTER Communicated by Justin Dauwels Reverse-Engineering Neural Networks to Characterize Their Cost Functions Takuya Isomura takuya.isomura@riken.jp Brain Intelligence Theory Unit, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan Karl Friston k.friston@ucl.ac.uk Wellcome Centre for…

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ARTICLE Communicated by Igor Goychuk Fast and Accurate Langevin Simulations of Stochastic Hodgkin-Huxley Dynamics Shusen Pu sxp600@case.edu Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, U.S.A. Peter J. Thomas…

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ARTICLE Communicated by Diego Pazò A Mean-Field Description of Bursting Dynamics in Spiking Neural Networks with Short-Term Adaptation Richard Gast rgast@cbs.mpg.de Helmut Schmidt hschmidt@cbs.mpg.de Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 04103 Leipzig,…

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ARTICLE Communicated by Tilo Schwalger Inference of a Mesoscopic Population Model from Population Spike Trains Alexandre René arene010@uottawa.ca Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa K1N 6N5, Canada; Max Planck Research Group Neural Systems Analysis,…

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ARTICLE Communicated by Ruben Moreno-Bote Heterogeneous Synaptic Weighting Improves Neural Coding in the Presence of Common Noise Pratik S. Sachdeva pratik.sachdeva@berkeley.edu Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley,…

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ARTICLE Communicated by Luca Mazzucato Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Continuous Attractors Weishun Zhong wszhong@mit.edu James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, and Department of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A. Zhiyue Lu zhiyuelu@unc.edu…

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ARTICLE Communicated by Shun-ichi Amari Center Manifold Analysis of Plateau Phenomena Caused by Degeneration of Three-Layer Perceptron Daiji Tsutsui d-tsutsui@cr.math.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp Osaka University, Toyonaka-shi, Osaka 560-0043, Japan A hierarchical neural network usually has many singular regions…

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ARTICLE Communicated by Terrence Sejnowski Hidden Aspects of the Research ADOS Are Bound to Affect Autism Science Elizabeth B. Torres ebtorres@psych.rutgers.edu Psychology Department; Computer Science, Center for Biomedical Imagining and Modeling; and Rutgers University Center…

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LETTER Communicated by Frederic Crevecoeur Model-Free Robust Optimal Feedback Mechanisms of Biological Motor Control Tao Bian tbian@nyu.edu Control and Networks Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn,…

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ARTICLE Communicated by Terrence Sejnowski Face Representations via Tensorfaces of Various Complexities Sidney R. Lehky sidney.lehky@riken.jp Cognitive Brain Mapping Laboratory, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan, and Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute,…

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