TY - GEN
ID - cogprints140
UR - http://cogprints.org/140/
A1 - Bednar, James A.
A1 - Miikkulainen, Risto
Y1 - 1998///
N2 - 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.
PB - Plenum, New York
KW - genetics
KW - genetic expression
KW - development
KW - visual system
KW - self-organization
KW - pattern generation
KW - complex adaptivesystems
KW - retinal waves
KW - PGO waves
KW - spontaneous activity
KW - endogenous activity
KW - sleep
KW - orientation map
KW - orientationpreference
KW - innate
KW - RF-LISSOM
KW - evolution
KW - ontogeny
KW - perception
TI - Pattern-Generator-Driven Development in Self-Organizing Models
SP - 317
AV - public
EP - 323
ER -