Development of retinotopy and ocular dominance by soft topology-preserving maps and elastic nets: Deriving one class of the models from another

摘要

The batch version of soft topology-preserving map producing retinotopy and ocular dominance in visual cortex is proven to be reduced to the elastic net. This verifies numerous results of numerical simulations described in the literature demonstrating similarities of neural patterns produced by lateral and elastic synaptic interactions.