Journal
NETWORK-COMPUTATION IN NEURAL SYSTEMS
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 249-266Publisher
INFORMA HEALTHCARE
DOI: 10.1080/09548980701661210
Keywords
natural scenes; network models; visual system; attention
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Most computational models of coding are based on a generative model according to which the feedback signal aims to reconstruct the visual scene as close as possible. We here explore an alternative model of feedback. It is derived from studies of attention and thus, probably more flexible with respect to attentive processing in higher brain areas. According to this model, feedback implements a gain increase of the feedforward signal. We use a dynamic model with presynaptic inhibition and Hebbian learning to simultaneously learn feedforward and feedback weights. The weights converge to localized, oriented, and bandpass filters similar as the ones found in V1. Due to presynaptic inhibition the model predicts the organization of receptive fields within the feedforward pathway, whereas feedback primarily serves to tune early visual processing according to the needs of the task.
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