Neural fields models of visual areas: principles, successes, and caveats

摘要: I discuss how the notion of neural fields, a phenomenological averaged description spatially distributed populations neurons, can be used to build models visual information is represented and processed in areas primates. describe one basic principles operation these fields equations which closely connected idea bifurcation their solutions. then apply this concept several features, edges, textures motion show that it account very simply for number experimental facts as well suggest new experiments.