Complex processes from dynamical architectures with time-scale hierarchy.

ABSTRACT: The idea that complex motor, perceptual, and cognitive behaviors are composed of smaller units, which are somehow brought into a meaningful relation, permeates the biological and life sciences. However, no principled framework defining the constituent elementary processes has been developed to this date. Consequently, functional configurations (or architectures) relating elementary processes and external influences are mostly piecemeal formulations suitable to particular instances only. Here, we develop a general dynamical framework for distinct functional architectures characterized by the time-scale separation of their constituents and evaluate their efficiency. Thereto, we build on the (phase) flow of a system, which prescribes the temporal evolution of its state variables. The phase fl

SUBMITTER: Perdikis D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3037373 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature