Computational neuroscience of natural scene processing in the ventral visual pathway

Thesis

Neural responses in the primate ventral visual system become more complex in the later stages of the pathway. For example, not only do neurons in IT cortex respond to complete objects, they also learn to respond invariantly with respect to the viewing angle of an object and also with respect to the location of an object. These types of neural responses have helped guide past research with VisNet, a computational model of the primate ventral visual pathway that self-organises during learnin...

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Authors: Tromans, J

• Publication date: 2012
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: invariance; VisNet; ventral visual system; object recognition
• Subjects: Computational Neuroscience; Neuroscience; Perception; Psychology; Experimental psychology