--- 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.' altloc: - http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/nn/pages/publications/abstracts.html#bednar.cns97.ps.Z chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: 'July 6-10, 1997' conference: 'Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, 1998 (Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Computation and Neural Systems Conference (CNS*97))' confloc: 'Big Sky, Montana' contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Bednar given: James A. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Miikkulainen given: Risto honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1998 date_type: published datestamp: 2000-02-22 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/01/40 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Bower given: James M. honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 140 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/140/3/bednar.cns97.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] 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' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:41 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 317-323 pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: 'Plenum, New York' refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:24:13 subjects: - comp-neuro-sci - comp-sci-art-intel - comp-sci-complex-theory - comp-sci-mach-learn - comp-sci-neural-nets - dev-psy - neuro-mod - neuro-mod succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Pattern-Generator-Driven Development in Self-Organizing Models type: confpaper userid: 312 volume: ~