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Pitch and timbre discrimination at wave-to-spike transition in the cochlea 耳蜗波-峰转换时的音高和音色辨别
Pub Date : 2017-11-15 DOI: 10.1121/1.5036320
R. Bader
A new definition of musical pitch is proposed. A Finite-Difference Time Domain (FDTM) model of the cochlea is used to calculate spike trains caused by tone complexes and by a recorded classical guitar tone. All harmonic tone complexes, musical notes, show a narrow-band Interspike Interval (ISI) pattern at the respective fundamental frequency of the tone complex. Still this fundamental frequency is not only present at the bark band holding the respective best frequency of this fundamental frequency, but rather at all bark bands driven by the tone complex partials. This is caused by drop-outs in the basically regular, periodic spike train in the respective bands. These drop-outs are caused by the energy distribution in the wave form, where time spans of low energy are not able to drive spikes. The presence of the fundamental periodicity in all bark bands can be interpreted as pitch. Contrary to pitch, timbre is represented as a wide distribution of different ISIs over bark bands. The definition of pitch is shown to also works with residue pitches. The spike drop-outs in times of low energy of the wave form also cause undertones, integer multiple subdivisions in periodicity, but in no case overtones can appear. This might explain the musical minor scale, which was proposed to be caused by undertones already in 1880 by Hugo Riemann, still until now without knowledge about any physical realization of such undertones.
提出了一种新的音高定义。耳蜗时域有限差分(FDTM)模型用于计算由音调复合体和录制的古典吉他音调引起的尖峰序列。所有谐音复合体,音符,在音调复合体各自的基频上显示窄带尖峰间隔(ISI)模式。然而,这个基频不仅存在于持有该基频各自最佳频率的吠带中,而且存在于由音调复偏频驱动的所有吠带中。这是由各自波段中基本规则的周期性尖峰序列中的衰减引起的。这些下降是由波形中的能量分布引起的,其中低能量的时间跨度不能驱动尖峰。所有树皮带中存在的基本周期性可以解释为音调。与音高相反,音色表现为树皮带上不同ISIs的广泛分布。基音的定义也适用于残余基音。波形低能量时的尖峰衰减也会引起低频、整数倍的周期性细分,但在任何情况下都不会出现泛音。这也许可以解释音乐的小调音阶,早在1880年,雨果·黎曼就提出了由低音引起的小调音阶,但直到现在还不知道这种低音的物理实现。
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引用次数: 4
Occipital and Left Temporal EEG Correlates of Phenomenal Consciousness 现象意识的枕叶和左颞叶脑电图关联
Pub Date : 2017-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-802508-6.00018-1
V. D. Pereira
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引用次数: 0
The Utility of Phase Models in Studying Neural Synchronization 相位模型在神经同步研究中的应用
Pub Date : 2017-07-18 DOI: 10.1002/9781119159193.ch36
Youngmin Park, Stewart Heitmann, G. Ermentrout
Synchronized neural spiking is associated with many cognitive functions and thus, merits study for its own sake. The analysis of neural synchronization naturally leads to the study of repetitive spiking and consequently to the analysis of coupled neural oscillators. Coupled oscillator theory thus informs the synchronization of spiking neuronal networks. A crucial aspect of coupled oscillator theory is the phase response curve (PRC), which describes the impact of a perturbation to the phase of an oscillator. In neural terms, the perturbation represents an incoming synaptic potential which may either advance or retard the timing of the next spike. The phase response curves and the form of coupling between reciprocally coupled oscillators defines the phase interaction function, which in turn predicts the synchronization outcome (in-phase versus anti-phase) and the rate of convergence. We review the two classes of PRC and demonstrate the utility of the phase model in predicting synchronization in reciprocally coupled neural models. In addition, we compare the rate of convergence for all combinations of reciprocally coupled Class I and Class II oscillators. These findings predict the general synchronization outcomes of broad classes of neurons under both inhibitory and excitatory reciprocal coupling.
同步神经尖峰与许多认知功能有关,因此值得研究。对神经同步的分析自然导致对重复尖峰的研究,从而导致对耦合神经振荡器的分析。耦合振荡器理论因此通知同步的尖峰神经元网络。耦合振荡器理论的一个重要方面是相位响应曲线(PRC),它描述了扰动对振荡器相位的影响。在神经学术语中,这种扰动代表了一个传入的突触电位,它可能会提前或推迟下一个峰值的时间。相位响应曲线和互耦振荡器之间的耦合形式定义了相位相互作用函数,这反过来又预测了同步结果(同相与反相)和收敛速度。我们回顾了两类PRC,并展示了相位模型在预测互耦神经模型同步中的效用。此外,我们比较了所有往复耦合的I类和II类振荡器组合的收敛率。这些发现预测了在抑制性和兴奋性互耦下广泛类别神经元的一般同步结果。
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引用次数: 10
Cross-modal codification of images with auditory stimuli: a language for the visually impaired 图像与听觉刺激的交叉模态编码:一种视觉受损的语言
Pub Date : 2017-05-15 DOI: 10.1167/17.10.1356
Takahisa Kishino, Sun Zhe, Roberto Marchisio, R. Micheletto
In this study we describe a methodology to realize visual images cognition in the broader sense, by a cross-modal stimulation through the auditory channel. An original algorithm of conversion from bi-dimensional images to sounds has been established and tested on several subjects. Our results show that subjects where able to discriminate with a precision of 95% different sounds corresponding to different test geometric shapes. Moreover, after brief learning sessions on simple images, subjects where able to recognize among a group of 16 complex and never-trained images a single target by hearing its acoustical counterpart. Rate of recognition was found to depend on image characteristics, in 90% of the cases, subjects did better than choosing at random. This study contribute to the understanding of cross-modal perception and help for the realization of systems that use acoustical signals to help visually impaired persons to recognize objects and improve navigation
在本研究中,我们描述了一种通过听觉通道的跨模态刺激来实现更广泛意义上的视觉图像认知的方法。建立了一种从二维图像到声音的原始算法,并在几个主题上进行了测试。我们的研究结果表明,受试者能够以95%的精确度区分不同的声音对应于不同的测试几何形状。此外,在对简单图像进行短暂的学习后,受试者能够通过听到其声学对应的声音,在一组16张复杂且未经训练的图像中识别出单个目标。识别率取决于图像特征,在90%的情况下,受试者比随机选择更好。本研究有助于理解跨模态感知,并有助于实现利用声信号帮助视障人士识别物体和改善导航的系统
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引用次数: 1
How sustainable are different levels of consciousness 不同层次的意识的可持续性如何
Pub Date : 2017-05-01 DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/e6497
E. Wiersma
The human brain processes a wide variety of inputs and does so either consciously or subconsciously. According to the Global Workspace theory, conscious processing involves broadcasting of information to several regions of the brain and subconscious processing involves more localized processing. This theoretical paper aims to expand on some of the aspects of the Global Workspace theory: how the properties of incoming information result in it being processed subconsciously or consciously; why processing can be either be sustained or short-lived; how the Global Workspace theory may apply both to real-time sensory input as well as to internally retained information. This paper proposes that: familiar input which does not elicit intense emotions becomes processed subconsciously and such processing can be continuous and sustained; input that elicits relatively intense emotions is subjected to highly sustainable conscious processing; input can also undergo meta-conscious processing. Such processing is not very sustainable but can exert control over other cognitive processes. This paper also discusses possible benefits of regulating cognitive processes this way.
人类的大脑会有意识或潜意识地处理各种各样的输入信息。根据全球工作空间理论,有意识的处理包括将信息传播到大脑的几个区域,而潜意识的处理涉及更多的局部处理。这篇理论论文旨在扩展全球工作空间理论的一些方面:传入信息的属性如何导致它被潜意识或有意识地处理;为什么加工可以是持续的,也可以是短暂的;全局工作空间理论如何应用于实时感官输入以及内部保留的信息。本文提出:不引起强烈情绪的熟悉输入在潜意识中被加工,这种加工可以是连续的和持续的;引起相对强烈情绪的输入受到高度可持续的意识处理;输入也可以经历元意识处理。这种处理过程不是很可持续,但可以对其他认知过程施加控制。本文还讨论了以这种方式调节认知过程的可能好处。
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引用次数: 3
Determining the minimum embedding dimension for state space reconstruction through recurrence networks 通过递归网络确定状态空间重构的最小嵌入维数
Pub Date : 2017-04-26 DOI: 10.29195/iascs.01.01.0004
K. P. Harikrishnan, R. Jacob, R. Misra, G. Ambika
The analysis of observed time series from nonlinear systems is usually done by making a time-delay reconstruction to unfold the dynamics on a multi-dimensional state space. An important aspect of the analysis is the choice of the correct embedding dimension. The conventional procedure used for this is either the method of false nearest neighbors or the saturation of some invariant measure, such as, correlation dimension. Here we examine this issue from a complex network perspective and propose a recurrence network based measure to determine the acceptable minimum embedding dimension to be used for such analysis. The measure proposed here is based on the well known Kullback-Leibler divergence commonly used in information theory. We show that the measure is simple and direct to compute and give accurate result for short time series. To show the significance of the measure in the analysis of practical data, we present the analysis of two EEG signals as examples.
对非线性系统的观测时间序列的分析通常是通过对其进行时间延迟重构来在多维状态空间上展开动力学。分析的一个重要方面是选择正确的嵌入维数。传统的方法是假最近邻法或一些不变测度的饱和,如相关维数。在这里,我们从复杂网络的角度来研究这个问题,并提出了一个基于递归网络的度量来确定可接受的最小嵌入维数,用于这种分析。这里提出的度量是基于信息论中常用的众所周知的Kullback-Leibler散度。结果表明,该方法计算简单、直接,对短时间序列的测量结果准确。为了说明该方法在实际数据分析中的意义,本文以两个脑电信号为例进行了分析。
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引用次数: 2
Pain and Spontaneous Thought 痛苦与自发思维
Pub Date : 2017-04-10 DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190464745.013.40
A. Kucyi
Pain is among the most salient of experiences while also, curiously, being among the most malleable. A large body of research has revealed that a multitude of explicit strategies can be used to effectively alter the attention-demanding quality of acute and chronic pains and their associated neural correlates. However, thoughts that are spontaneous, rather than actively generated, are common in daily life, and so attention to pain can often temporally fluctuate because of ongoing self-generated experiences. Classic pain theories have largely neglected to account for unconstrained fluctuations in cognition, but new studies have demonstrated the behavioral-relevance, putative neural basis, and individual variability of interactions between pain and spontaneous thoughts. In this chapter, I review behavioral studies of ongoing fluctuations in attention to pain, studies of the neural basis of spontaneous mind-wandering away from pain, and the clinical implications of this research.
痛苦是最显著的体验之一,但奇怪的是,它也是最具可塑性的体验之一。大量的研究表明,许多明确的策略可以用来有效地改变急性和慢性疼痛及其相关神经相关的注意力要求质量。然而,自发的想法,而不是主动产生的想法,在日常生活中很常见,所以对疼痛的关注往往会因为持续的自我产生的经历而暂时波动。经典的疼痛理论在很大程度上忽视了认知中不受约束的波动,但新的研究已经证明了疼痛和自发思想之间的行为相关性、假定的神经基础和个体可变性。在本章中,我回顾了对疼痛注意力持续波动的行为研究,对自发思维游离疼痛的神经基础的研究,以及本研究的临床意义。
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引用次数: 1
The Role of the Observer in Goal-Directed Behavior 观察者在目标导向行为中的作用
Pub Date : 2017-02-27 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75726-1_10
I. Samengo
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引用次数: 0
The Neural Basis and Evolution of Divergent and Convergent Thought 发散与收敛思维的神经基础与演化
Pub Date : 2016-11-11 DOI: 10.1017/9781316556238
L. Gabora
This chapter takes as its departure point a neural level theory of insight that arose from studies of the sparse, distributed, content-addressable architecture of associative memory. It is argued that convergent thought is most fruitfully characterized in terms of, not the generation of a single correct solution (as it is conventionally construed), but using concepts in their most compact form by activating neural cell assemblies that respond to their most typical properties. This allows them to be deployed in a conventional manner such that effort is reserved for exploring causal relationships. Conversely, it is argued that divergent thought is most fruitfully characterized in terms of, not the generation of multiple solutions (as it is conventionally construed), but using concepts in a form that is, albeit expanded, constrained by the situation, by activating neural cell assemblies that respond to context-specific atypical properties. This allows them to be deployed in a manner that is conducive to exploring unconventional yet potentially relevant associations, and unearthing potentially useful relationships of correlation. Thus, divergent thought can involve as few as one idea. This proposal is compatible with widespread beliefs that (1) most creative tasks require not many solutions but one, yet entail both divergent and convergent thinking, and (2) not all problems with multiple solutions require creative thinking, and conversely, some problems with single solution do require creative thought. The chapter discusses how the ability to shift between convergent and divergent modes of thought may have evolved, and it concludes with educational and vocational implications.
本章的出发点是对联想记忆的稀疏、分布、内容可寻址架构的研究,提出了一种神经层面的洞察力理论。有人认为,趋同思维最富有成效的特征不是产生一个单一的正确解决方案(就像传统上解释的那样),而是通过激活对其最典型属性作出反应的神经细胞组合,以最紧凑的形式使用概念。这允许它们以传统的方式部署,以便为探索因果关系保留努力。相反,有人认为,发散思维最富有成效的特征不是产生多种解决方案(就像传统上解释的那样),而是以一种形式使用概念,尽管是扩展的,但受情况限制,通过激活神经细胞组合,对特定于上下文的非典型特性做出反应。这使得它们能够以一种有利于探索非常规但潜在相关关联的方式进行部署,并揭示潜在有用的相关关系。因此,发散性思维可能只涉及一个想法。这一建议与人们普遍认为的:(1)大多数创造性任务需要的不是很多解决方案,而是一个,但需要发散和收敛思维;(2)并非所有有多种解决方案的问题都需要创造性思维,相反,一些只有单一解决方案的问题确实需要创造性思维。这一章讨论了在趋同和发散思维模式之间转换的能力是如何进化的,并以教育和职业意义作为结论。
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引用次数: 44
A Possible Role for Entropy in Creative Cognition 熵在创造性认知中的可能作用
Pub Date : 2016-11-02 DOI: 10.3390/ecea-3-E001
L. Gabora
This paper states the case for applying the conceptual and analytic tools associated with the study of entropy in physical systems to cognition, focusing on creative cognition. It is proposed that minds modify their contents and adapt to their environments to minimize psychological entropy: arousal-provoking uncertainty, which can be experienced negatively as anxiety, or positively as a wellspring for creativity (or both). Thus, intrinsically motivated creativity begins with detection of high psychological entropy material (e.g., a question or inconsistency), which provokes uncertainty and is arousal-inducing. This material is recursively considering from new contexts until it is sufficiently restructured that arousal dissipates and entropy reaches an acceptable level. Restructuring involves neural synchrony and dynamic binding, and may be facilitated by temporarily shifting to a more associative mode of thought. The creative outcome may similarly induce restructuring in others, and thereby contribute to the cultural evolution of more nuanced understandings. Thus, the concept of entropy could play a unifying role in cognitive science as a driver of thought and action, and in cultural studies as the driver of the creative innovations that fuel cultural evolution. The paper concludes with an invitation for cross-disciplinary exploration of this potential new arena of entropy studies.
本文阐述了将与物理系统熵研究相关的概念和分析工具应用于认知的情况,重点是创造性认知。有人提出,大脑会修改其内容并适应其环境,以最大限度地减少心理熵:唤起引发的不确定性,可以作为焦虑的负面体验,也可以作为创造力的积极源泉(或两者兼而有之)。因此,内在激励的创造力始于对高心理熵材料(例如,一个问题或不一致)的检测,这引发了不确定性并引起了觉醒。这种材料从新的背景中递归地考虑,直到它被充分重组,唤醒消散,熵达到一个可接受的水平。重组涉及神经同步和动态绑定,并可能通过暂时转移到更联想的思维模式而促进。创造性的结果可能同样会引起他人的重组,从而促进更细微的理解的文化演变。因此,熵的概念可以在认知科学中作为思想和行动的驱动力,在文化研究中作为推动文化进化的创造性创新的驱动力,发挥统一的作用。论文最后邀请大家对这个潜在的熵研究的新领域进行跨学科的探索。
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