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Beyond inhibition: lateral modulation of plasticity of feedforward synapses in a spiking model of V1
- Csaba Petre1Email author,
- Micah Richert1,
- Botond Szatmary1 and
- Eugene Izhikevich1
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-14-S1-P187
© Petre et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013
- Published: 8 July 2013
Keywords
- Receptive Field
- Lateral Inhibition
- Learning Rule
- Input Feature
- Neighboring Neuron
Lateral inhibition is typically used to repel neural receptive fields. Here we introduce an additional learning mechanism that modifies the plasticity for feedforward synapses based on lateral interactions. We show a model, based on evidence from biological recordings[1], in which a heterosynaptic learning rule in conjunction with lateral inhibition introduces competition among neurons for input features.
A. Detail of the heterosynaptic rule. Neurons N1 and N2 fire early for the input, and their feedforward synapses undergo normal STDP. They send an activity signal to N3 and N4, whose feedforward synaptic weights are then depressed to prevent learning of the same feature. B. Map of measured emergent orientation and phase responses of neurons in a 2 × 2 degree section of V1 layer 4 of our spiking V1 model. We observe a wide range of oriented feature selectivity and good spatial coverage of the feature space.
Our V1 model is built on a spatially distributed grid of single-compartment spiking neurons with parameters configured to model regular spiking cortical pyramidal cells, as detailed in [2]. The model has plastic excitatory feedforward connections and local lateral inhibition between spatially proximal neurons. In our model, we observe a better overall coverage of orientation selectivity of V1 Layer 4 neurons with our heterosynaptic rule than without it. We find a larger range of orientations and less redundancy of receptive field features between neighboring neurons, as shown in Figure 1B. Such a rule could be used in a generic spiking cortical architecture to enforce independence of neural receptive fields.
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