A Critical Comparison of Models for Orientation and Ocular Dominance Columns in the Striate Cortex
Abstract
More than ten of the most prominent models for the structure and for the activity dependent formation of orientation and ocu(cid:173) lar dominance columns in the striate cort(>x have been evaluated. We implemented those models on parallel machines, we extensively explored parameter space, and we quantitatively compared model predictions with experimental data which were recorded optically from macaque striate cortex. In our contribution we present a summary of our results to date. Briefly, we find that (i) despite apparent differences, many models are based on similar principles and, consequently, make similar pre(cid:173) dictions, (ii) certain "pattern models" as well as the developmental "correlation-based learning" models disagree with the experimen(cid:173) tal data, and (iii) of the models we have investigated, "competitive Hebbian" models and the recent model of Swindale provide the best match with experimental data.
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Erwin et al. "A Critical Comparison of Models for Orientation and Ocular Dominance Columns in the Striate Cortex." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1994.Markdown
[Erwin et al. "A Critical Comparison of Models for Orientation and Ocular Dominance Columns in the Striate Cortex." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1994.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1994/erwin1994neurips-critical/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{erwin1994neurips-critical,
title = {{A Critical Comparison of Models for Orientation and Ocular Dominance Columns in the Striate Cortex}},
author = {Erwin, E. and Obermayer, K. and Schulten, K.},
booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
year = {1994},
pages = {93-100},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1994/erwin1994neurips-critical/}
}