DEVELOPMENT OF FEATURE DETECTORS IN VISUAL-CORTEX WITH APPLICATIONS TO LEARNING AND REACTION-DIFFUSION SYSTEMS
DEVELOPMENT OF FEATURE DETECTORS IN VISUAL-CORTEX WITH APPLICATIONS TO LEARNING AND REACTION-DIFFUSION SYSTEMS
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00337422
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
GROSSBERG, S
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作者:
GROSSBERG, S
Developmental mechanisms for tuning of visual cortex are derived from adult learning mechanisms: an adaptational property of shunting on-center off-surround networks that prevents saturation of parallel processed patterns at high input intensities, a contrast enhancement and short-term memory mechanism, and plastic synaptic strengths that compute a time average of presynaptic signals and postsynaptic activities and multiplicatively gate signals. The mechanisms can generate fields of feature detectors; e.g., line or picture detectors. A developing hierarchy of such fields can be synthesized in which successive critical developmental periods are triggered as a dynamic equilibrium is established between shortterm memory and long-term memory at each stage. Shunting adaptation can account for some data on spatial frequency adaptation. Shunting network properties resemble properties of certain reaction-diffusion systems that have been used to model developmental data in various species; e.g., Hydra,Xenopusretina, slime molds. For example, positional information due to regulation in reaction-diffusion systems is analogous to constancies due to network adaptation, firing of a developmental gradient is analogous to contrast enhancement, and maintenance of a pattern of morphogens is analogous to short-term memory.