creators_name: Bednar, James A.
creators_name: Miikkulainen, Risto
editors_name: Bower, James M.
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2000-02-22
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:41
metadata_visibility: show
title: Pattern-Generator-Driven Development in Self-Organizing Models
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-neuro-sci
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: comp-sci-complex-theory
subjects: comp-sci-mach-learn
subjects: comp-sci-neural-nets
subjects: dev-psy
subjects: neuro-mod
subjects: neuro-mod
full_text_status: public
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
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.
date: 1998
date_type: published
publisher: Plenum, New York
pagerange: 317-323
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Bednar, James A. and Miikkulainen, Risto  (1998) Pattern-Generator-Driven Development in Self-Organizing Models.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/140/3/bednar.cns97.pdf