title: 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 from the two eyes, on the formation of orientation selectivity and ocular dominance in a lateral inhibition network. 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 producing networks with orientation-selective cells and ocular dominance columns. This work is an extension of our previous single cell misalignment model Shouval et al., 1996.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, R. I. 02912, USA. hzs@cns.brown.edu
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shouval
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Intrator
authors.forename: L N
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Cooper
mesh_terms: D000221:Adaptation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology*; D015348:Vision, Binocular / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*