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A mathematical study for the decoding of visual information

Research Project

Project/Area Number 24500324
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Cognitive science
Research InstitutionNumazu National College of Technology

Principal Investigator

MIYASHIA Masanobu  沼津工業高等専門学校, 制御情報工学科, 教授 (20443038)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) TANAKA Shigeru  電気通信大学, 脳科学ライフサポートセンター, 特任教授 (70281706)
Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help
¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Keywords一次視覚野 / 方位マップ / 単純型細胞 / 自己組織化 / 視覚経験 / デコーディング / 方位選択性 / げっ歯類動物 / salt&pepper / 興奮性結合 / 視知覚 / 第一次視覚野 / 神経デコーディング
Outline of Final Research Achievements

It has been reported that the exposure of kittens to a single orientation induced a marked over-representation of the experienced orientation in the primary visual cortex. Such a structural alteration in orientation maps raises a question of how the animals can perceive visual images using the maps. To address this question theoretically, we made a decoding model that reconstruct the visual image inputted to the model retina; and we applied the orientation maps obtained from our activity-dependent self-organization model of geniculo-cortical afferent inputs. In normal experience simulations, the similarity index (SI) between stimulus images and reconstructed images increased with the orientation tuning of individual simple cells become sharper. On the other hand, in vertical-orientation experience simulations, the value of SI for horizontal stimulus gratings was smaller than the vertical ones, but horizontal grating images were reconstructed better than expected.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2014 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • 2012 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All 2014 2013 2012

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (6 results)

  • [Journal Article] Identification of ocular dominance domains in New World owl monkeys by immediate-early gene expression2014

    • Author(s)
      Toru Takahata, Masanobu Miyashita, Shigeru Tanaka, Jon H. Kaas
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America (PNAS)

      Volume: 111(11) Pages: 4297-4302

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] The sparseness of excitatory lateral connections can account for the formation of species-dependent orientaThe sparseness of excitatory lateral connections can account for the formation of species-dependent orientation representation in the mammalian primary visual cortex2014

    • Author(s)
      M. Miyashita, N. Wakabayashi, S. Tanaka
    • Organizer
      Society fo Neuroscience
    • Place of Presentation
      ワシントンDC USA
    • Year and Date
      2014-11-15 – 2014-11-19
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] What determines the presence or absence of an orientation map in the mammalian primary visual cortex?2014

    • Author(s)
      田中繁、若林和、宮下真信
    • Organizer
      日本神経科学会
    • Place of Presentation
      横浜
    • Year and Date
      2014-09-11 – 2014-09-13
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Do orientation maps altered by single-orientation experience encode visual images?2013

    • Author(s)
      Nodoka Wkabayashi, Masanobu Miyashita, Jyunsei Horikawa, Shigeru Tanaka
    • Organizer
      Society for Neuroscience
    • Place of Presentation
      San Diego, USA
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] A theoretical study of experience-dependent orientation map alteration: effect of normal viewing following single-orientation exposure2012

    • Author(s)
      若林和、宮下真信、田中繁
    • Organizer
      日本神経科学会
    • Place of Presentation
      名古屋
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Theoretical study of orientation plasticity induced by single-orientation exposure: recovery effects of normal viewing on altered OP maps2012

    • Author(s)
      Nodoka Wakabayashi, Masanobu Miyashita, Junsei Horikawa, Shigeru Tanaka
    • Organizer
      Society for Neuroscience
    • Place of Presentation
      New Orleans, USA
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Theoretical model for the formation of asymmetric connections from starburst amacrine cells to ganglion cells underlying direction selectivity in the developing retina2012

    • Author(s)
      Shigeru Tanaka, Kenichi Yanagawa, Masanobu Miyashita, Masahiro Yamada, Shiro Usui
    • Organizer
      Society for Neuroscience
    • Place of Presentation
      New Orleans, USA
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report

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Published: 2013-05-31   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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