Self-Organization in the Primary Visual Cortex: The RF-LISSOM Model
Active from 1995 - 1997
In RF-LISSOM, the neurons receive inputs from local receptive fields on the retina instead of the entire retina as in SOM and LISSOM. This extension leads to realistic modeling of how the receptive fields develop into orientation, ocularity, and size detectors, how the neurons become globally ordered into orientation, ocular dominance, and size columns, and how patterned lateral connections develop between them. Such a structure forms a sparse, redundancy-reduced representation of the visual input and can account for several plasticity phenomena in the adult cortex. The self-organization is activity-dependent and driven by the input from the external environment, or by patterns generated internally.
Joseph Sirosh Ph.D. Alumni joseph sirosh [at] gmail com
James A. Bednar Postdoctoral Alumni jbednar [at] inf ed ac uk
Yoonsuck Choe Ph.D. Alumni choe [at] tamu edu
Yoonsuck Choe Ph.D. Alumni choe [at] tamu edu
Prenatal and Postnatal Development of Laterally Connected Orientation Maps James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen In Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, 2004, 58-60, 985-992, 2004. 2004

Self-Organization, Plasticity, and Low-Level Visual Phenomena in a Laterally Connected Map Model of the Primary Visual Cortex Risto Miikkulainen, James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, and Joseph Sirosh In R. L. Goldstone and P. G. Schyns and D. L. Medin, editors, Perceptual Learning, Psychology... 1997

Self-Organization and Functional Role of Lateral Connections and Multisize Receptive Fields in the Primary Visual Cortex Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen Neural Processing Letters, 3:39-48, 1996. 1996

Self-Organization of Orientation Maps, Lateral Connections, and Dynamic Receptive Fields in the Primary Visual Cortex Joseph Sirosh, Risto Miikkulainen and James A. Bednar In Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen and Yoonsuck Choe, editors, {P}roceedings of the {I}nter... 1996

Cooperative Self-Organization Of Afferent And Lateral Connections In Cortical Maps Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen Biological Cybernetics:66-78, 1994. 1994

LISSOM

The LISSOM package contains the C++, Python, and Scheme source code and examples for training and testing firing-rate...

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