Analysis of Neural Circuit for Visual Attention Using Lognormally Distributed Input
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Visual attention has recently been reported to modulate neural activity of narrow spiking and broad spiking neurons in V4, with increased firing rate and less inter-trial variations. We simulated these physiological phenomena using a neural network model based on spontaneous activity, assuming that the visual attention modulation could be achieved by a change in variance of input firing rate distributed with a lognormal distribution. Consistent with the physiological studies, an increase in firing rate and a decrease in inter-trial variance was simultaneously obtained in the simulation by increasing variance of input firing rate distribution. These results indicate that visual attention forms strong sparse and weak dense input or a ‘winner-take-all’ state, to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the target information.
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Visual Attention Neural Network Model Spontaneous Activity Lognormal DistributionPreview
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