title: Modeling and estimation problems in the turtle visual cortex.
abstract: The goal of this paper is to verify that position and velocity of a spot of light incident on the retina of a turtle are encoded by the spatiotemporal dynamics of the cortical waves they generate. This conjecture is examined using a biophysically realistic large-scale computational model of the visual cortex implemented with the software package, GENESIS. The cortical waves are recorded and analyzed using principal components analysis and the position and velocity information from visual space is mapped onto an abstract B-space, to be described, using the coefficients of the principal components expansion. The likely values of the position/velocity are estimated using standard statistical detection methods.
authors.affiliation: Department of Systems Science and Mathematics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA. zoran@caltech.edu
authors.forename: Zoran
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Nenadic
authors.forename: Bijoy K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.forename: Philip S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Ulinski
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003198:Computer Simulation; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D007395:Interneurons / Q000502:physiology; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009038:Motion; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D017966:Pyramidal Cells / Q000502:physiology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012160:Retina / Q000502:physiology; D014426:Turtles / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014794:Visual Fields