Pattern formation and cortical maps
Peter Dayan
Journal of Physiology, Paris 97, 475-489.
Abstract
The response selectivities of neurons in adult primary sensory
cortices depend on intricate patterns of synaptic connections; these
selectivities are arranged over cortex in equally rich fashion.
Characterising these patterns, and particularly the
activity-dependence (and independence) of their developmental
trajectories, has been a major task for experimental and theoretical
neuroscience. Here, we describe and analyze a paradigmatic algorithm
for activity-dependent development of the refinement and generation
of neuronal selectivities, and relate it to some of the wealth of
suggestions in the literature.
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