Online learning and stimulus-driven responses of neurons in visual cortex

Tang, Huajin; Li, Haizhou; Zhang, Yi

doi:10.1007/s11571-010-9143-8

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“…The concentric RFs of GCs and LGN cells are responsible for the primary integrations of physical stimuli, and all the subsequent visual tasks stem from the representation produced by these cells. It is found that the orientation preference maps caused by correlated visual stimuli show geometrical regularities similar to those observed in natural images (Tang et al 2011). Hubel and Wiesel, two Nobel Prize laureates, proposed a famous hypothesis about the construction of simple cells' RFs.…”

Section: Orientation Detection In the Brainmentioning

confidence: 83%

A computational neural model of orientation detection based on multiple guesses: comparison of geometrical and algebraic models

2012

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The implementation of Hubel-Wiesel hypothesis that orientation selectivity of a simple cell is based on ordered arrangement of its afferent cells has some difficulties. It requires the receptive fields (RFs) of those ganglion cells (GCs) and LGN cells to be similar in size and sub-structure and highly arranged in a perfect order. It also requires an adequate number of regularly distributed simple cells to match ubiquitous edges. However, the anatomical and electrophysiological evidence is not strong enough to support this geometry-based model. These strict regularities also make the model very uneconomical in both evolution and neural computation. We propose a new neural model based on an algebraic method to estimate orientations. This approach synthesizes the guesses made by multiple GCs or LGN cells and calculates local orientation information subject to a group of constraints. This algebraic model need not obey the constraints of Hubel-Wiesel hypothesis, and is easily implemented with a neural network. By using the idea of a satisfiability problem with constraints, we also prove that the precision and efficiency of this model are mathematically practicable. The proposed model makes clear several major questions which Hubel-Wiesel model does not account for. Image-rebuilding experiments are conducted to check whether this model misses any important boundary in the visual field because of the estimation strategy. This study is significant in terms of explaining the neural mechanism of orientation detection, and finding the circuit structure and computational route in neural networks. For engineering applications, our model can be used in orientation detection and as a simulation platform for cell-to-cell communications to develop bio-inspired eye chips.

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Section: Orientation Detection In the Brainmentioning

confidence: 83%