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Project Abstract

Exploiting the chaotic principles of neural activity, the project proposes to develop a biologically motivated coding scheme of perceptual information based on periodic behavior, as opposed to the common one based on equilibria, which exploits chaotic behavior for representing the intrinsic variability of perceptual stimuli and chaos synchronization for categorizing them into distinct internal representations. Such an aim will be pursued by means of three research threads. The first aims at investigating the role of the irregular oscillatory behavior of neurons in representing imprecise knowledge. The second aims at developing biologically inspired pattern recognition methods based on approximately periodic chaotic behavior. While the third one aims at verifying if the periodic behavior-based stimuli coding of the neurons manifests itself also at physiological level, in particular in the first relay stations of the somatosensory system and the EEG signals.
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What's  New

bulletFinal project review in Venice, more ... - June 21-23, 2005
bulletThe publications issued from APEREST's results, more ...
bulletA nice Neuroscience unifying vision of the APEREST results, more ...
bulletOrganized the "Nonlinear Analysis and Modeling of Neural Signal Processing and Coding" special session at NOLTA2004, Fukuoka, more... - November 29, 2004

Key Milestones

bulletApril 30 2005 - APEREST has officially reached its end
bulletApril 30 2004 - Year 2 successfully concluded
bulletApril 30 2003 - Year 1 successfully concluded
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 APEREST is founded within the European IST FP5 program (Contract number IST-2001-34893)
with the support of the Swiss Federal Bureau of Education and Science (Contract Number OFES-01.0456).
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Last updated: September 20, 2005.