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Computation on the Transient

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Moazzezi, R., & Dayan, P. (2007). Computation on the Transient. Poster presented at Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (COSYNE 2007), Salt Lake City, UT, USA.


Zitierlink: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-42E5-F
Zusammenfassung
Line attractor networks have become standard workhorses of computational accounts of neural population
processing for optimal perceptual inference, working memory, decision making and more. Such networks
are defined by possessing a one- (line) or multi-dimensional (surface) manifold in the high dimensional
space of the activities of all the neurons in the net, to a point on which the state of the network is projected in
a non-linear manner by the network’s dynamics. The standard view that the network represents information
by the location of the point on this manifold at which it sits [1] is only appropriate if the computation
to be performed by the network is aligned with the underlying symmetry implied by the manifold. In
interesting cases, the computation that must be performed is orthogonal to this symmetry structure, and so
an alternative computational view is required. Here, we illustrate the problem using a well-studied visual
hyperacuity task, and suggest solutions involving different classes of computations during the network’s
transient evolution.
We consider the bisection task, which involves deciding to which end bar, the middle of three parallel
visual bars is closer [2]. As with other hyperacuity tasks, performance is impressively invariant to factors
such as positional deviations arising from various forms of eye movement, which can at most only have
been partially trained. The natural noise-removing line attractor for the population coded representation
of this task has exactly the problem that the required computation (determining the sign of the miniscule
displacement of the central bar) is orthogonal to the positional symmetry implied by the line. Li & Dayan
[3] suggested that learning might create in V1 a different sort of attractor network, in which there are
two different attractive lines, one for each possible decision. Unfortunately, this network only performs
well over a limited range of retinal positions [3,4]. Here we suggest a completely different computational
approach, in which the decision is based on the way that a readily computed statistic of the activity (the
population centre of mass) changes over the transient evolution of the activity. This significantly improves
performance, nearly up to the level of an ideal observer for the model input, even in the case that the network contains only one single attractive line.