Neurobiology: neural networks

The following experiments can be performed:

With 1 Neurosimulator:

• Intracellular potential and action potential
• Comparison between low and high threshold levels
• Comparison between low and high stimulus levels
• Membrane time constant and low-pass filtering
• Membrane time constant
• Low-pass filtering
• Excitatory synapse
• Depolarization
• Temporal summation
• Spatial summation
• Synaptic amplification by terminal branches
• Effect of decreasing stimulus
• Hebbian synapse
• Synaptic learning and forgetting
• Inhibitory synapse
• Hyperpolarization
• Spacial inhibitory-excitatory  summation
• Veto synapse

With 2 Neurosimulators:

• Renshaw inhibition
• Motoneuron signals with recurrent inhibition by Renshaw cell
• Motoneuron signals without recurrent inhibition
• Functional characteristics of Renshaw inhibition
• Lateral inhibition and contrast improvement
• Lateral inhibition
• Contrast improvement
• Neuronal principles of classic conditioning
• Conditioned reflex
• Reversed stimulus succession doesn´t bring about a conditioned reflex

With 3 Neurosimulators:

• Transient (phasic) responses: focus on visual sense
• Transient responses: ON neuron
• Transient responses: OFF neuron
• Simultaneous activation of ON and OFF neurons
• Neuronal oscillator (internal clock)
• Rotating excitation (short-term memory)
• Rotating excitation variation 1: dampening
• Rotating excitation variation 2: convulsive excitation
• Rotating excitation variation 3: equilibrium
• Special anatomical circuits
• Cerebral cortex and sensoric learning: functional characteristic of a triad

An additional neurosimulator can be added to this configuration to permit additional experiments for 4 Neurosimulators.

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