Reorganisation of Somatosensory Cortex After Tactile Training

Abstract

Topographic maps in primary areas of mammalian cerebral cortex reor(cid:173) ganise as a result of behavioural training. The nature of this reorgani(cid:173) sation seems consistent with the behaviour of competitive neural net(cid:173) works, as has been demonstrated in the past by computer simulation. We model tactile training on the hand representation in primate somato(cid:173) sensory cortex, using the Neural Field Theory of Amari and his col(cid:173) leagues. Expressions for changes in both receptive field size and mag(cid:173) nification factor are derived, which are consistent with owl monkey ex(cid:173) periments and make a prediction which goes beyond them.

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Text

Petersen and Taylor. "Reorganisation of Somatosensory Cortex After Tactile Training." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1995.

Markdown

[Petersen and Taylor. "Reorganisation of Somatosensory Cortex After Tactile Training." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1995.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1995/petersen1995neurips-reorganisation/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{petersen1995neurips-reorganisation,
  title     = {{Reorganisation of Somatosensory Cortex After Tactile Training}},
  author    = {Petersen, Rasmus S. and Taylor, John G.},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {1995},
  pages     = {82-88},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1995/petersen1995neurips-reorganisation/}
}