Pairs of "one-formant pulses" with 10 ms onset-to-onset interval and highly different F values for the first and the second pulse (LH and HL pairs) were used in vowel identification experiment. Response distributions corresponding to these stimuli and to "stationary" two-formant and one-formant pulse pairs were compared to calculate the phonetic distance between stimuli. The results are in favour of low-pass filtering of excitation pattern with sampling at the stimulus offset.

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PubMed1980

[Perception of voiceless plosive consonants in syllables of the "vowel--consonant" type].

Bursts were the determining cue for perception of stops in VC syllables in Russian material under conditions of partial exclusion of information and in conflict combinations; the transitional part of vowels also contained certain information. If the information was reduced, /p/--answers predominated, but in conflict combination /p/ was suppressed by competing cues. The distribution of answers for a conflict combination cannot be described as a sum of distributions of answers for its parts.

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PubMed1974

[Work of the "Dnepr-21" computer on a real time scale in physiological experiments].

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A model of adaptive visual processes of primary image processing.

A computer model of adaptive segmentation of two-dimensional visual objects was developed, based on neurophysiological and psychophysiological principles. The model imitates several stages of visual information processing. At the first stage, a preliminary assessment of the image is performed using a brightness pattern analyzer. At the second stage, control parameters are formed on the bases of the initial assessment. A defined control vector is synthesized for each type of starting image, which allows adaptive processing; this initiates two parallel mechanisms of primary image description: one contains the outlines of images and the sharp boundaries between their fragments, and the second contains areas of uniform intensity. The control parameter vector is applied to these two descriptions to analyze their brightnesses and spatial characteristics, and this is used as the basis for forming the regime for subsequent processing, which includes a set of processing operators whose parameters are tuned for each fragment of the image. The primary phasic and tonic descriptions are then used to extract individual fragments of the image (i.e., discrimination of figures from the background) and to form the final presentation. The resulting descriptions complement each other, creating a basis for quantitative measurements of image characteristics and allowing various signs needed for image classification to be formed. The computer program for adaptive image segmentation was tested using a large number of different two-dimensional half-tone objects, the purposes of these exercises including segmentation and measurement of objects in morphometric and cytometric studies.

Adaptation, Physiological↗

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Digital processing of images in physiological studies.

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Effect of electrode dimensions on motor unit potentials.

Different effects of longitudinal and transversal electrode dimensions on nerve or muscle single fibre action potentials detected monopolarly, were reported in the literature. The results were contradictory. We studied motor unit potentials (MUPs) detected at a large distance (typical of surface recording) on the basis of a mathematical model without source simplification. The MUPs were calculated as a single convolution of the first temporal derivative of a realistic intracellular action potential and MU impulse response. The spatial averaging of the MUPs by rectangular plate electrodes was performed through analytical integration of the MU impulse response over the electrode area. The effects of longitudinal dimension of the electrode were stronger than those of a transversal one. The effects were distance dependent. The longitudinal dimension of the electrode influenced the main phases (that reflected the excitation origin and propagation) more than the terminal phases (that reflected the excitation extinction at the muscle fibers' ends). This was due to differences in the character of the potential fields (quadrupole or dipole) during generation of individual MUP phases. It was shown that the relative weight of the individual MUP phases could be stressed or suppressed by a proper choice of electrode dimensions, position and orientation.

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The effects of corticoliberin at different concentrations on long-term potentiation in slices of rat olfactory cortex.

Experiments were performed to investigate evoked focal potentials in slices of rat olfactory cortex. The results showed that 1 microM corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF; corticoliberin) increases the frequency of posttetanic potentiation, which had a shorter delay phase than in control experiments. Posttetanic potentiation during perfusion with 0.1 microM corticoliberin had a longer delay phase than in control experiments.

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