title: Recurrent Processing during Object Recognition.
abstract: How does the brain learn to recognize objects visually, and perform this difficult feat robustly in the face of many sources of ambiguity and variability? We present a computational model based on the biology of the relevant visual pathways that learns to reliably recognize 100 different object categories in the face of naturally occurring variability in location, rotation, size, and lighting. The model exhibits robustness to highly ambiguous, partially occluded inputs. Both the unified, biologically plausible learning mechanism and the robustness to occlusion derive from the role that recurrent connectivity and recurrent processing mechanisms play in the model. Furthermore, this interaction of recurrent connectivity and learning predicts that high-level visual representations should be shaped by error signals from nearby, associated brain areas over the course of visual learning. Consistent with this prediction, we show how semantic knowledge about object categories changes the nature of their learned visual representations, as well as how this representational shift supports the mapping between perceptual and conceptual knowledge. Altogether, these findings support the potential importance of ongoing recurrent processing throughout the brain's visual system and suggest ways in which object recognition can be understood in terms of interactions within and between processes over time.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO, USA ; eCortex, Inc. Boulder, CO, USA.
authors.forename: Randall C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: O'Reilly
authors.forename: Dean
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wyatte
authors.forename: Seth
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Herd
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mingus
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Jilk
keywords: computational model; feedback; object recognition; recurrent processing; winners-take-all mechanism
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