Sensory Coding with Dynamically Competitive Networks

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1999-05-21

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0309033v2

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Neurons and Cognition

19 pages, 16 figures. Originally submitted to the neuro-sys archive which was never publicly announced (was 9905002)

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Studies of insect olfactory processing indicate that odors are represented by rich spatio-temporal patterns of neural activity. These patterns are very difficult to predict a priori, yet they are stimulus specific and reliable upon repeated stimulation with the same input. We formulate here a theoretical framework in which we can interpret these experimental results. We propose a paradigm of ``dynamic competition'' in which inputs (odors) are represented by internally competing neural assemblies. Each pattern is the result of dynamical motion within the network and does not involve a ``winner'' among competing possibilities. The model produces spatio-temporal patterns with strong resemblance to those observed experimentally and possesses many of the general features one desires for pattern classifiers: large information capacity, reliability, specific responses to specific inputs, and reduced sensitivity to initial conditions or influence of noise. This form of neural processing may thus describe the organizational principles of neural information processing in sensory systems and go well beyond the observations on insect olfactory processing which motivated its development.

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