TCB Publications - Abstract

TCB Publications - Abstract

Klaus Obermayer, Helge Ritter, and Klaus Schulten. A model for the development of the spatial structure of retinotopic maps and orientation columns. IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics Communications and Computer Sciences, E75-A:537-545, 1992. Reprinted in The Principles of Organization in Organisms - Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Vol. XII. A. Baskin and J. Mittenthal, Eds. (Addison Wesley, 1991).

OBER91 Topographic maps begin to be recognized as one of the major computational structures underlying neural computation in the brain. They provide dimension-reducing projections between feature spaces that seem to be established and maintained under the participation of selforganizing, adaptive processes. In this contribution, we investigate how well the structure of such maps can be replicated by simple adaptive processes of the kind proposed by Kohonen(15). We will particularly address the important issue, how the dimensionality of the input space affects the spatial organization of the resulting map.

Download Full Text

The manuscripts available on our site are provided for your personal use only and may not be retransmitted or redistributed without written permissions from the paper's publisher and author. You may not upload any of this site's material to any public server, on-line service, network, or bulletin board without prior written permission from the publisher and author. You may not make copies for any commercial purpose. Reproduction or storage of materials retrieved from this web site is subject to the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, Title 17 U.S.C.

Download full text: PDF ( 1.8MB)