Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts that a rotating mass like the Earth pulls the fabric of space and ...

The laws of physics that concern heat and work could gain a firmer mathematical footing thanks to “gauge theory”, which ...

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a ...

You can use the Phase Plane and Slope Field apps to qualitatively analyze ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Phase Plane app: Analyze two-dimensional autonomous ODE systems. Slope Field app: ...

Some of the material on this web page is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants SES-0350686, SES-0719055, and . Any opinions, findings and conclusions or ...

Head direction (HD) cells, which fire action potentials whenever an animal points its head in a particular direction, are thought to subserve the animal’s sense of spatial orientation. HD cells are ...

DynaSim is an open-source MATLAB/GNU Octave toolbox for rapid prototyping of neural models and batch simulation management. It is designed to speed up and simplify the process of generating, sharing, ...

Predators use vision to hunt. Processing motion, particularly changes in direction, is essential to detect, pursue, and capture prey. In many animals, the superior colliculus or equivalent visual ...

As of March 24, 2014, the MATLAB code supports the latest version of the L-BFGS-B solver (version 3.0), and is compatible with GNU Octave. Thank you to José Vallet for providing these updates. If you ...

Our results are the first to define a circuit relationship between DSGCs and visual cortex and they suggest that, in the mouse, direction-tuned and orientation-tuned V1 neurons may inherit their ...