Spatio-Temporally Efficient Coding Assigns Functions to Hierarchical Structures of the Visual System.

ABSTRACT: Hierarchical structures constitute a wide array of brain areas, including the visual system. One of the important questions regarding visual hierarchical structures is to identify computational principles for assigning functions that represent the external world to hierarchical structures of the visual system. Given that visual hierarchical structures contain both bottom-up and top-down pathways, the derived principles should encompass these bidirectional pathways. However, existing principles such as predictive coding do not provide an effective principle for bidirectional pathways. Therefore, we propose a novel computational principle for visual hierarchical structures as spatio-temporally efficient coding underscored by the efficient use of given resources in both neural activity space

SUBMITTER: Sihn D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9184804 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature