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Surface representation by population coding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

Hidehiko Komatsu
Hidehiko Komatsu
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Neural Control, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki-shi, Aichi, 444-8585, Japankomatsu@nips.ac.jp www.nips.ac.jp/
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Abstract

Although there is empirical evidence of neural filling-in, this does not necessarily entail “isomorphic” theory. Most cortical neurons do not respond to a uniform surface and are instead sensitive to surface size and quality. I propose that a population of such neurons encodes the presence of a surface. This scheme is different from either the “cognitive” or “isomorphic” theories.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , December 1998 , pp. 761 - 762
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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