Title | Perceptual category learning and visual processing: An exercise in computational cognitive neuroscience |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2017 |
Authors | Cantwell, G., Riesenhuber M., Roeder J. L., & Ashby F. G. |
Journal | Neural Networks |
Volume | 89 |
Pagination | 31-38 |
Date Published | 2017 May |
ISSN | 1879-2782 |
Keywords | Basal Ganglia, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Simulation, Humans, Learning, Photic Stimulation, Random Allocation, Visual Cortex, Visual Perception |
Abstract | The field of computational cognitive neuroscience (CCN) builds and tests neurobiologically detailed computational models that account for both behavioral and neuroscience data. This article leverages a key advantage of CCN-namely, that it should be possible to interface different CCN models in a plug-and-play fashion-to produce a new and biologically detailed model of perceptual category learning. The new model was created from two existing CCN models: the HMAX model of visual object processing and the COVIS model of category learning. Using bitmap images as inputs and by adjusting only a couple of learning-rate parameters, the new HMAX/COVIS model provides impressively good fits to human category-learning data from two qualitatively different experiments that used different types of category structures and different types of visual stimuli. Overall, the model provides a comprehensive neural and behavioral account of basal ganglia-mediated learning. |
DOI | 10.1016/j.neunet.2017.02.010 |
Alternate Journal | Neural Netw |
PubMed ID | 28324757 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC5393456 |
Grant List | R01 MH063760 / MH / NIMH NIH HHS / United States |
Perceptual category learning and visual processing: An exercise in computational cognitive neuroscience
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