TY - GEN ID - cogprints3633 UR - http://cogprints.org/3633/ A1 - Valpola, Harri TI - Behaviourally meaningful representations from normalisation and context-guided denoising Y1 - 2004/05// N2 - Many existing independent component analysis algorithms include a preprocessing stage where the inputs are sphered. This amounts to normalising the data such that all correlations between the variables are removed. In this work, I show that sphering allows very weak contextual modulation to steer the development of meaningful features. Context-biased competition has been proposed as a model of covert attention and I propose that sphering-like normalisation also allows weaker top-down bias to guide attention. AV - public ER -