Title :
Control of mesoscopic/intermediate-range spatio-temporal chaos in the cortex
Author :
Kozma, Robert ; Freeman, Walter J.
Author_Institution :
Div. of Neurobiol., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
Tools of nonlinear systems theory and chaos control are applied for scrutinizing biological information processing in animals during intentional action. Our aim is to construct a dynamical system model that can interface a finite state device with the infinite complexity of the real world, providing it with eyes, ears or a nose, depending on the type of input. Its actions will be simply assignment of events to classes giving warning signals, such as distinguishing benign odors of food from threatening odors. The obtained results are used for the interpretation of experimental data on spatio-temporal chaos in sensory information processing in vertebrate brains
Keywords :
biocontrol; brain models; chaos; neurophysiology; nonlinear control systems; pattern classification; animals; benign odors; biological information processing; classification; cortex; event assignment; intentional action; mesoscopic/intermediate-range spatio-temporal chaos control; nonlinear systems theory; threatening odors; vertebrate brains; Animals; Biological control systems; Biological system modeling; Chaos; Control systems; Ear; Eyes; Information processing; Nonlinear control systems; Nonlinear systems;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 2001. Proceedings of the 2001
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6495-3
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.2001.945553
