Effect of Binocular Cortical Misalignment on Networks of BCM and Oja Neurons

Abstract

A two-eye visual environment, composed of natural images, is used intraining a network of interacting BCM and Oja (PCA) neurons. This workis an extends our previous single cell model {[}10] to networks ofinteracting neurons, We study the effect of misalignment, between thesynaptic density functions connecting both eyes to each single neuron,on the formation of orientation selectivity and ocular dominance. Weshow that for the BCM rule a natural image environment with binocularcortical misalignment is sufficient for producing networks oforientation selective cells with varying ocular dominance. Oja neuronsin contrast are always perfectly binocular.