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The Journal of Neuroscience, December 1, 1998, 18(23):9870-9895
Correlation-Based Development of Ocularly Matched Orientation and
Ocular Dominance Maps: Determination of Required Input
Activities
Ed
Erwin1, 4 and
Kenneth
D.
Miller1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Departments of 1 Physiology and
2 Otolaryngology, 3 Neuroscience Graduate
Program, 4 W. M. Keck Center for Integrative
Neuroscience, and 5 Sloan Center for Theoretical
Neurobiology, University of California, San Francisco, California
94143-0444
We extend previous models for separate development of ocular
dominance and orientation selectivity in cortical layer 4 by exploring
conditions permitting combined organization of both properties. These
conditions are expressed in terms of functions describing the degree of
correlation in the firing of two inputs from the lateral geniculate
nucleus (LGN), as a function of their retinotopic separation and their
"type" (ON center or OFF center and left eye or right eye).
The development of ocular dominance requires that the correlations of
an input with other inputs of the same eye be stronger than or equal to
its correlations with inputs of the opposite eye and strictly stronger
at small retinotopic separations. This must be true after summing
correlations with inputs of both center types. The development of
orientation-selective simple cells requires that (1) an input's
correlations with other inputs of the same center type be stronger than
its correlations with inputs of the opposite center type at small
retinotopic separation; and (2) this relationship reverse at larger
retinotopic separations within an arbor radius (the radius over which
LGN cells can project to a common cortical point). This must be true
after summing correlations with inputs serving both eyes.
For orientations to become matched in the two eyes, correlated activity
within the receptive fields must be maximized by specific between-eye
alignments of ON and OFF subregions. Thus the correlations between the
eyes must differ depending on center type, and this difference must
vary with retinotopic separation within an arbor radius.
These principles are satisfied by a wide class of correlation
functions. Combined development of ocularly matched orientation maps
and ocular dominance maps can be achieved either simultaneously or
sequentially. In the latter case, the model can produce a correlation between the locations of orientation map singularities and local ocular
dominance peaks similar to that observed physiologically.
The model's main prediction is that the above correlations should
exist among inputs to cortical layer 4 simple cells before vision. In
addition, mature simple cells are predicted to have certain
relationships between the locations of the ON and OFF subregions of the
left and right eyes' receptive fields.
Key words:
Hebb synapse; visual cortex; striate cortex; simple cell; binocular cell; model
Copyright © 1998 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/98/18239870-26$05.00/0
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