Browsing Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Informatik by Referee "Wolf, Fred Prof. Dr."
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Advancing information theory for distributed computation - with applications to biological networks and Artificial Intelligence
(2025-10-15)Biological brains and artificial neural networks alike derive their impressive information processing abilities from the complex interplay of individual neurons. While the function of an individual neuron is comparatively ... -
A Measure-Theoretic Perspective on Multivariate Information with Applications to Data Science
(2025-09-17)This dissertation establishes a measure-theoretic foundation for information theory by formulating entropy, mutual information, and related quantities on a common type of probability spaces. Using Radon–Nikodym derivatives ... -
Structure and Evolution of Visual Cortical Representations
(2025-05-28)Fully understanding the functions and mechanisms of the complex machinery that is our brain requires advanced statistical data analysis and theoretical modelling. In this thesis, I develop and apply statistical tools and ... -
Sensory processing and learning in spiking neural networks
(2025-02-12)Organisms are capable of navigating an extremely complex environment with the help of their senses. To do this, they exploit that high dimensional sensory inputs can often be predicted from relatively sparse information, ... -
Dynamical remodeling of visual circuit architecture
(2023-06-14)Visual cortex, as a model for plasticity, has been studied for many years. It is still controversial, however which mechanisms guide the emergence and development of a hallmark of the cortical functional architecture, ... -
Role of N-glycosylation for the function of E-cadherin in tissue morphogenesis
(2022-12-14)E-cadherin is central to the formation, stabilization, and maturation of adherens junctions, which serve to physically link epithelial cells and transmit mechanical pulling forces from the outside to the actomyosin cortex ... -
Criticality and sampling in neural networks
(2021-02-25)The brain is made of billions of functional units that interact and give raise to its collective properties. The criticality hypothesis states that many these properties emerge due to brain dynamics operating at the critical ... -
Anomalous Diffusion in Ecology
(2015-01-14)As measurement techniques improve and increasingly sophisticated analysis methods are more common, biology becomes subject to the wide range of treatments coming from physics. In this thesis, we consider a specific ... -
Modeling the biophysical mechanisms of sound encoding at inner hair cell ribbon synapses
(2012-11-28)A key stage in auditory encoding is the transformation of the analog and continuous electrical signal at inner hair cells (IHCs) into the discrete spike timings in auditory nerve fibers (ANFs). In this work, using modeling, ... -
Bursting dynamics and topological structure of in vitro neuronal networks
(2012-11-15)The complex relationship between network structure and dynamics is investigated in neuronal networks in vitro. The most prominent dynamics in these cultured networks is synchronous bursting. As the onset of these bursts ... -
Conditional visuomotor behavior in the Parietal Reach Region and Dorsal Premotor Cortex
(2011-08-12)Making voluntary goal-directed arm movements is a basic ability of all primates. This act seems to be very simple - almost trivial - to us, but it involves a complex translation of sensory ... -
Molecular Physiology of the Ribbon Synapse
(2010-07-16)Hearing relies on Ca2+ influx-triggered exocytosis in cochlear inner hair cells (IHCs). In this study, we examined the regulation of IHC Ca2+ channels by the CaV(beta)2 Ca2+ channel subunit ... -
A Systems Level Analysis of Neuronal Network Function in the Olfactory Bulb: Coding, Connectivity, and Modular organization
(2008-12-15)The olfactory bulb (OB) is the first brain region that receives and processes sensory inputs from the nose. It contains highly specialized neuronal networks organized by individual glomeruli, which are sites of synaptic ...