Nils Bertschinger

Publication List Details

Period

2005 - 2008

Number

12

Co-Authors

Autonomy: An Information–Theoretic Perspective (2008)

Nils Bertschinger, Eckehard Olbrich, Nihat Ay, Jürgen Jost

We present a tentative proposal for a quantitative measure of autonomy. This is something that, surprisingly, seems to be missing from the literature, even though autonomy is considered to be a basic...

Abstract (2008)

Thomas Natschläger, Nils Bertschinger, Robert Legenstein

In this paper we analyze the relationship between the computational capabilities of randomly connected networks of threshold gates in the timeseries domain and their dynamical properties. In...

correlations (2008)

Jürgen Jost, Nils Bertschinger, Eckehard Olbrich

An information theoretic approach to system differentiation on the basis of statistical

Autonomy: an information theoretic perspective (2008)

Nils Bertschinger, Eckehard Olbrich, Nihat Ay, Jürgen Jost

We present a tentative proposal for a quantitative measure of autonomy. This is something that, surprisingly, seems to be missing from the literature, even though autonomy is considered to be a basic...

Information and closure in systems theory (2006)

Nils Bertschinger, Eckehard Olbrich, Nihat Ay, Jürgen Jost

The notion of closure plays a prominent role in systems theory where it is used to identify or define the system in distinction from its environment and to explain the autonomy of the system. Here,...

Methods for estimating the computational power and generalization capability of neural microcircuits (2005)

Maass, Wolfgang, Legenstein, Robert, Bertschinger, Nils

What makes a neural microcircuit computationally powerful? Or more precisely, which measurable quantities could explain why one microcircuit C is better suited for a particular family of...

At the Edge of Chaos: Real-time Computations and self-organized Criticality in Recurrent Neural Networks (2005)

Natschlaeger, Thomas, Bertschinger, Nils, Legenstein, Robert

In this paper we analyze the relationship between the computational capabilities of randomly connected networks of threshold gates in the timeseries domain and their dynamical properties. In...

Methods for estimating the computational power and generalization capability of neural microcircuits (2005)

Wolfgang Maass, Robert Legenstein, Nils Bertschinger

What makes a neural microcircuit computationally powerful? Or more precisely, which measurable quantities could explain why one microcircuit C is better suited for a particular family of...

Methods for estimating the computational power and generalization capability of neural microcircuits (2005)

Wolfgang Maass, Robert Legenstein, Nils Bertschinger

What makes a neural microcircuit computationally powerful? Or more precisely, which measurable quantities could explain why one microcircuit C is better suited for a particular family of...