Sub-optimality of the early visual system explained through biologically plausible plasticity

Author:

Chauhan TusharORCID,Masquelier Timothée,Cottereau Benoit R.

Abstract

AbstractThe early visual cortex is the site of crucial pre-processing for more complex, biologically relevant computations that drive perception and, ultimately, behaviour. This pre-processing is often viewed as an optimisation which enables the most efficient representation of visual input. However, measurements in monkey and cat suggest that receptive fields in the primary visual cortex are often noisy, blobby, and symmetrical, making them sub-optimal for operations such as edge-detection. We propose that this suboptimality occurs because the receptive fields do not emerge through a global minimisation of the generative error, but through locally operating biological mechanisms such as spike-timing dependent plasticity. Using an orientation discrimination paradigm, we show that while sub-optimal, such models offer a much better description of biology at multiple levels: single-cell, population coding, and perception. Taken together, our results underline the need to carefully consider the distinction between information-theoretic and biological notions of optimality in early sensorial populations.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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