BCM Network Develops Orientation Selectivity and Ocular Dominance in Natural Scene Environment.

Abstract

A two-eye visual environment is used in training a network of BCM neurons. We study the effect of misalignment, between the synaptic density functions connecting both eyes to each single neuron, on the formation of orientation selectivity and ocular dominance. The visual environment we use is composed of natural images. We show that for the BCM rule a natural image environment with binocular cortical misalignment is sufficient for producting networks with orientation selective cells and ocular dominance columns. This work is an extension of our previous single cell model (Shouval et al., 1996).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 18, 1996
Accession Number
ADA316968

Entities

People

  • Harel Shouval
  • Leon Cooper
  • Nathan Intrator

Organizations

  • Brown University

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Binoculars
  • Classification
  • Computer Programming
  • Environment
  • Gaussian Distributions
  • Imaging Techniques
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Misalignment
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Self Organizing Systems
  • Statistics
  • Three Dimensional
  • Training
  • Visual Cortex

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  • Computer Networking
  • Neuroscience
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.