A Neural Network Model of Temporal Code Generation and Position-Invariant Pattern Recognition

摘要

Numerous studies have suggested that the brain may encode information in the temporal firing pattern of neurons. However, little is known regard- ing how information may come to be temporally encoded and about the potential computational advantages of temporal coding. Here, it is shown that local inhibition may underlie the temporal encoding of spatial im- ages. As a result of inhibition, the response of a given cell can be signif- icantly modulated by stimulus features outside its own receptive field.