Neural Chaos Scheme of Perceptual Conflicts

摘要

Multistable perception is perception in which two (or more) interpretations of the same ambiguous image alternate while an obser-ber looks at them. Perception undergoes involuntary and random-like change. The question arises whether the apparent randomness of alternation is real (that is, due to a stochastic process) or whether any underlying deterministic structure to it exists. Upon this motivation, we have examined the spatially coherent temporal behaviors of multi-stable perception model based on the chaotic neural network from the viewpoint of bottom-up high dimensional approach. In this paper, we focus on dynamic processes in a simple (minimal) system which consists of three neurons, aiming at further understanding of the deterministic mechanism.