536 Subject Index
spatial frequency preference of LGN cell 16
spatiotemporal receptive fields 89, 90, 115, 362
species differences 132
due to internally generated patterns 8, 366
in cortical area sizes 342, 343 in cortical maps 18, 20
in map size 325, 363 in REM sleep 32 modeling of 381–382
spectral models see map models, spectral speech 43, 45, 358, 404
speeding up recurrent processing 324 spike generator 244, 246 spike-based coding 359
spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) 49
spikes 33, 359–360, 372, see also PGLISSOM
spiking units 10, 43, 242, 244, 405 information capacity of 397
spinal cord 30
spontaneous activity see internally generated patterns
squint see visual deprivation, strabismus stacked model of cortical layers 243 standard error of the mean (SEM) 157,
164, 284, 288
STDP see spike-timing-dependent plasticity
stellate cells 43 stereo vision 28, 111
stereoscopic images 380
strabismus see visual deprivation, strabismus
striate cortex see primary visual cortex stroke 133, 135, 151
subcortical face processing areas 212, 235
subcortical pathways 15, 16, 395 subtractive normalization see normaliza-
tion
sum of Gaussians (SoG) 309–313, 320 sum-of-squares normalization see nor-
malization supercomputers 331, 341
superior colliculus 16, 211, 212, 389
superposition catastrophe 33, 34 supervised learning 310, 315, 400 support vector machines 317 surgery, effect of 151
symmetry breaking 62, 264
synapses, number of see number of, synapses in humans
synaptic decay rate see decay rate synaptic depression 360
synaptic transmission 268, 360 synchronization 10, 46–48, 242
as a binding mechanism 33–36, 43, 257–271, 358–359
between cortical areas 393–396
effect of excitatory and inhibitory connections on 258–263
effect of long refractory period on 269 effect of noise on 263–270
effect of strong excitation on 268 synergetic development of multiple con-
nection types 26, 347, 392 synfire chains 393
tabula rasa 29
TAE see tilt aftereffect tagging 401
temporal coding 33–36, 43, 46–48, 241, 358–360
temporal integrator 245 temporo-occipital (TEO) area 41 TEO see temporo-occipital area tetrodotoxin 25
thalamocortical connections see feedforward pathways
thalamocortical loop 395
three-dot patterns 211–213, 216, 367 generation of 236, 355
threshold adaptation 228, 229, 246, 375 tilt aftereffect (TAE) 155–172, 347, 384–
386, 391, 428 analysis of 166–170
computing magnitude of 162 computing perceived orientation for
161
dark recovery of 171 demonstration of 156 detailed mechanism of 167 direct 156, 168
effect of adaptation time on 156