What the other 85%
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Bruno A. Olshausen Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute School of Optometry and Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience UC Berkeley
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What the other 85% of V1 is doing Bruno A. Olshausen Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute School of Optometry and Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience UC Berkeley The standard model of V1 R e s p ons e P o i n t w i s e R e s p
Bruno A. Olshausen Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute School of Optometry and Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience UC Berkeley
Image I(x,y,t) K(x,y,t) Receptive field
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response
Response normalization Pointwise non-linearity
neighboring neurons
r(t) Response
70 μ
i j Perisomatic thin branches Thin branch subunits i y1 y2 Distal apical thin branches 2-Layer model 3-Layer model (a) (b) (c)
Current Opinion in Neurobiology
Hausser & Mel (2003)
5 10 15 20 25 30 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 time (sec) spike count (35 msec bins) a219, group 3, cell 4 ρ=0.362
18 ms 53 ms 88 ms 123 ms 159 ms 194 ms 229 ms 264 ms
Responses of V1 neurons are not well predicted by RF models
receptive field:
5 10 15 20 25 30 10 20 30
cell 1
5 10 15 20 25 30 10 20 30
cell 2
5 10 15 20 25 30 10 20 30
spikes/sec time (sec) cell 3
Proportion of cells studied Variance explained
1.0 1.0
~85% of V1 function not understood
~0.4 0.3-0.4
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Feedforward response ("#)
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Sparsified response ($#) ! !
Phase-Quadrant Demodulation Code [0, 0] [1, 0] [1, 1] [0, 1]
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Figure 2: The phase demodulation process used to
coefficient index
LGN spikes are phase-locked to ongoing retinal oscillations (Koepsell, Sommer, Hirsch)
The Unknown As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know We don't know.
From: The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld Hart Seeley, Slate Magazine