title: Network connections that evolve to circumvent the inverse optics problem.
abstract: A fundamental problem in vision science is how useful perceptions and behaviors arise in the absence of information about the physical sources of retinal stimuli (the inverse optics problem). Psychophysical studies show that human observers contend with this problem by using the frequency of occurrence of stimulus patterns in cumulative experience to generate percepts. To begin to understand the neural mechanisms underlying this strategy, we examined the connectivity of simple neural networks evolved to respond according to the cumulative rank of stimulus luminance values. Evolved similarities with the connectivity of early level visual neurons suggests that biological visual circuitry uses the same mechanisms as a means of creating useful perceptions and behaviors without information about the real world.
authors.affiliation: Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
authors.forename: Cherlyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ng
authors.forename: Janani
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sundararajan
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hogan
authors.forename: Dale
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Purves
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D008027:Light; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012160:Retina / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception
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