Design of artificial neural system by using asynchronous bifurcation processor

摘要

The mammalian cochlear consists of highly nonlinear components: lymph (viscous fluid), a basilar membrane (vibrating membrane in the viscous fluid), outer hair cells (active dumpers for the basilar membrane), inner hair cells (neural transducers), and spiral ganglion cells (parallel spikes density modulators). In this paper, a spiral ganglion cell model, the dynamics of which is described by an asynchronous cellular automaton (asynchronous bifurcation processor), is investigated, and it is shown that the model can reproduce typical nonlinear responses of the spiral ganglion cell in the mammalian cochlea.