Biology – Quantitative Biology – Neurons and Cognition
Scientific paper
2008-04-08
Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Cognitive Systems, Karlsruhe
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Neurons and Cognition
Scientific paper
The activity patterns of highly developed cognitive systems like the human brain are dominated by autonomous dynamical processes, that is by a self-sustained activity which would be present even in the absence of external sensory stimuli. During normal operation the continuous influx of external stimuli could therefore be completely unrelated to the patterns generated internally by the autonomous dynamical process. Learning of spurious correlations between external stimuli and autonomously generated internal activity states needs therefore to be avoided. We study this problem within the paradigm of transient state dynamics for the internal activity, that is for an autonomous activity characterized by a infinite time-series of transiently stable attractor states. We propose that external stimuli will be relevant during the sensitive periods, the transition period between one transient state and the subsequent semi-stable attractor. A diffusive learning signal is generated unsupervised whenever the stimulus influences the internal dynamics qualitatively. For testing we have presented to the model system stimuli corresponding to the bar-stripes problem and found it capable to perform the required independent-component analysis on its own, all the time being continuously and autonomously active.
Gros Claudius
Kaczor Gregor
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