Researchers have used a very wide range of different experimental and theoretical
approaches to help understand mammalian visual systems. These approaches tend to have …

In this document, a new temporally and spatially calibrated model of cortical activity using
rate-based units is presented. The model is called TCAL (Temporally CALibrated) is based …

In this chapter, we first define a neural map as a sheet of neurons systematically related to
another population of neurons, including the special but common case of a topographic map …

How can an information processing system as complex and as powerful as the human
cerebral cortex be constructed from the limited information available in the genome …

Learning through the sensorimotor loop is essential for intelligent agents. While the
important role of sensorimotor learning has been studied, several important aspects of …

Experiments on the primary visual cortex (V1) of monkeys have established that (1) V1
neurons respond to certain low-level visual features like orientation and color at specific …

In turn, GCAL (Bednar 2012; Law et al. 2011) was designed to remove some of the artificial
limitations and biologically unrealistic features of LISSOM:• Automatic homeostatic plasticity …

The motor maps in the cortex are topologically organized, just like the sensory cortical maps,
where nearby locations in the map represent behaviors of similar kinds. However, there is …

Project Report: Investigating topographic neural map development of the visual system ELEN
E6002 Page 1 Project Report: Investigating topographic neural map development of the …

LISSOM Orientation Maps Page 1 LISSOM Orientation Maps Dr. James A. Bednar jbednar@inf.ed.ac.uk
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jbednar CNV Spring 2012: LISSOM Orientation Maps 1 Page …