Computational Maps in the Visual Cortex

by Risto Miikkulainen, James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, Joseph Sirosh

Overview

For more than 30 years, the visual cortex has been the source of new theories and ideas about how the brain processes information. The visual cortex is easily accessible through a variety of recording and imagining techniques and allows mapping of high level behavior relatively directly to neural mechanisms. Understanding the computations in the visual cortex is therefore an important step toward a general theory of computational brain theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441919588
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	10/15/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Pages:	538
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

Biological Background.- Computational Foundations.- LISSOM: A Computational Map Model of V1.- Development of Maps and Connections.- Understanding Plasticity.- Understanding Visual Performance: The Tilt Aftereffect.- HLISSOM: A Hierarchical Model.- Understanding Low-Level Development: Orientation Maps.- Understanding High-Level Development: Face Detection.- PGLISSOM: A Perceptual Grouping Model.- Temporal Coding.- Understanding Perceptual Grouping: Contour Integration.- Computations in Visual Maps.- Scaling LISSOM simulations.- Discussion: Biological Assumptions and Predictions.- Future Work: Computational Directions.- Conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"An increasingly important technique used by basic scientists to understand brain development and function is theoretical/computational modeling. … Computational Maps in the Visual Cortex provides a good review of this area, though strongly emphasizing the models developed over the past several years by Miikkulainen’s group in the Computer Science department at the University of Texas. … the book will be a useful reference for researchers interested in theoretical approaches for understanding certain properties of the visual cortex." (Geoffrey J. Goodhill, Clinical Experimental Ophthalmology, Issue 34, 2006)

"The hardcover book of 24.2×16.3×3 cm size presents a comprehensive, unified computational theory of the visual cortex as a laterally connected self-organizing map … . All chapters are clearly structured and well written. With more than 170 figures, 47 in full color, the chapters are richly illustrated. … The book is written for computational scientists and neuroscientists working in the field of the visual cortex. The book will be a valuable complement to every scientific library." (R. M. Müri, Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, Vol. 245, 2007)

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