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Type: | Conference paper |
Title: | Can a competitive neural network explain selective attention in insect target tracking neurons? |
Author: | Shoemaker, P. Wiederman, S. O'Carroll, D. |
Citation: | 2013 6th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER), San Diego, California, 6 - 8 November, 2013: pp.903-906 |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Publisher Place: | USA |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
Series/Report no.: | International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering |
ISBN: | 9781467319690 |
ISSN: | 1948-3546 1948-3554 |
Conference Name: | International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (6th : 2013 : San Diego, U.S.A.) |
Statement of Responsibility: | Patrick A. Shoemaker, Steven D. Wiederman, and David C. O’Carroll |
Abstract: | Small target motion detecting (STMD) neurons in the dragonfly brain are neural correlates of a highly-specialized and ethologically-significant feature detection function, and the recent discovery of selective attention in STMDs has clear implications for the ability of dragonflies to track and pursue one target from among several. We used a biophysically-plausible neural network model, based on competitive units fed by NMDA-type synaptic inputs and including lateral feedback inhibition, to model these attentional effects in numerical simulations. With appropriate forward gain, the model displays a winner-takes-all behavior that partially captures the selective attention documented in electrophysiological recordings from STMDs. It cannot, however, explain the full range of results that have now been observed in wide-field STMDs, in particular a bias toward attention to targets dependent on their traversal of continuous trajectories. |
Rights: | ©2013 IEEE |
DOI: | 10.1109/NER.2013.6696081 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ner.2013.6696081 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 4 Medical Sciences publications |
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