John Porrill

TL;DR: The most detailed model available of the rabbit nictitating membrane response is implemented, in which each motor unit of the retractor bulbi muscle is represented by a Hill-type model, driven by a non-linear activation mechanism designed to reproduce the isometric force measurements of Lennerstrand.

TL;DR: Two particular techniques are described: the Berkinblit algorithm, used to model the leg-wiping reflexes of the frog, and the parallel control scheme of Hinton, in which simple stick-man simulations maintain a balanced posture while reaching.

TL;DR: Two psychophysical experiments tested the prediction that scaling vertical disparities to simulate different viewing distances to the fixation point should affect the perceived amplitudes of vertically but not horizontally oriented ridges and broadly confirmed the anisotropy prediction by finding that large scalings of vertical disparities simulating near distances had a strong effect on the perceived Amplitudes of the vertically oriented stimuli but little impact on the horizontal ones.

TL;DR: The design of modules in the current version of the TINA stereo based 3D vision system responsible for the recovery of geometric descriptions and their subsequent integration into partial wire frame models are described.

TL;DR: By modelling the flocculus as an adaptive filter using a covariance learning rule, it is shown that in simulation the cerebellar cortex can in fact learn to decorrelate efference copy from motor command, and thereby compensate for changes to the oculomotor plant.