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Neural Computation (2000) 12 (1): 181–194.
Published: 01 January 2000
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View articletitled, Effects of Spike Timing on Winner-Take-All Competition in Model Cortical Circuits
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Synaptic interactions in cortical circuits involve strong recurrent excitation between nearby neurons and lateral inhibition that is more widely spread. This architecture is commonly thought to promote a winner-takeall competition, in which a small fraction of neuronal responses is selected for further processing. Here I report that such a competition is remarkably sensitive to the timing of neuronal action potentials. This is shown using simulations of model neurons and synaptic connections representing a patch of cortical tissue. In the simulations, uncorrelated discharge among neuronal units results in patterns of response dominance and suppression, that is, in a winner-take-all competition. Synchronization of firing, however, prevents such competition. These results demonstrate a novel property of recurrent cortical-like circuits, suggesting that the temporal patterning of cortical activity may play an important part in selection among stimuli competing for the control of attention and motor action.
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Neural Computation (1992) 4 (3): 341–355.
Published: 01 May 1992
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View articletitled, Binding Hierarchies: A Basis for Dynamic Perceptual Grouping
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Since it has been suggested that the brain binds its fragmentary representations of perceptual events via phase-locking of stimulated neural oscillators, it is important to determine how extended synchronization can occur in a clustered organization of cells possessing a distribution of firing rates. To answer that question, we establish the basic conditions for the existence of a binding mechanism based on synchronized oscillations. In addition, we present a simple hierarchical architecture of feedback units that not only induces robust phase-locking within and segregation between perceptual groups, but also serves as a generic binding machine.