@misc{cogprints140,
          editor = {James M. Bower},
           title = {Pattern-Generator-Driven Development in Self-Organizing Models},
          author = {James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen},
       publisher = {Plenum, New York},
            year = {1998},
           pages = {317--323},
        keywords = {genetics, genetic expression, development, visual system, self-organization, pattern generation, complex adaptivesystems, retinal waves, PGO waves, spontaneous activity, endogenous activity, sleep, orientation map, orientationpreference, innate, RF-LISSOM, evolution, ontogeny, perception},
             url = {http://cogprints.org/140/},
        abstract = {Self-organizing models develop realistic cortical structures when given approximations of the visual environment as input. Recently it has been proposed that internally generated input patterns, such as those found in the developing retina and in PGO waves during REM sleep, may have the same effect. Internal pattern generators would constitute an efficient way to specify, develop, and maintain functionally appropriate perceptual organization. They may help express complex structures from minimal genetic information, and retain this genetic structure within a highly plastic system. Simulations with the RF-LISSOM orientation map model indicate that such preorganization is possible, providing a computational framework for examining how genetic influences interact with visual experience.}
}

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