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Published on: February 8, 2020
Adaptive scales of integration and response latencies in a critically-balanced model of the primary visual cortex
Keith Hayton1, Dimitrios Moirogiannis1, Marcelo Magnasco1
1Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America.
Abstract:
The primary visual cortex (V1) integrates information over scales in visual space, which have been shown to vary, in an input-dependent manner, as a function of contrast and other visual parameters. Which algorithms the brain uses to achieve this feat are largely unknown and an open problem in visual neuroscience. We demonstrate that a simple dynamical mechanism can account for this contrast-dependent scale of integration in visuotopic space as well as connect this property to two other stimulus-dependent features of V1: extents of lateral integration on the cortical surface and response latencies.
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