Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the formation of columnar structures in the primary visual cortex II --- Local organization of orientation modules

dc.creatorYamagishi, Kengo
dc.date1996-11-05
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dc.descriptionSelf-organization of orientation-wheels observed in the visual cortex is discussed from the view point of topology. We argue in a generalized model of Kohonen's feature mappings that the existence of the orientation-wheels is a consequence of Riemann-Hurwitz formula from topology. In the same line, we estimate partition function of the model, and show that regardless of the total number N of the orientation-modules per hypercolumn the modules are self-organized, without fine-tuning of parameters, into definite number of orientation-wheels per hypercolumn if N is large.
dc.description36 pages Latex2.09 and eps figures. Needs epsf.sty, amssym.def, and Type1 TeX-fonts of BlueSky Res. for correct typo in graphics files
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/adap-org/9611002
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/adap-org/9611002
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/149724
dc.subjectAdaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
dc.titleSpontaneous symmetry breaking and the formation of columnar structures in the primary visual cortex II --- Local organization of orientation modules
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