Title :
A shunting inhibitory motion detector that can account for the functional characteristics of fly motion-sensitive interneurons
Author :
Bouzerdoum, Abdesselam ; Pinter, Robert B.
Abstract :
The multiplicative inhibitory motion detector (MIMD) has been proposed by the authors (Visual Communications and Image Processing IV, Proceedings of SPIE. 1199, 1229-1240, 1989). The applicability of this motion detector to the activity of motion-sensitive interneurons of the lobula plate, the posterior pat of the third visual ganglion in the fly´s optic lobe, is investigated. In particular, it is demonstrated that an array of MIMDs can simulate the characteristics of transient and steady-state response and of contrast sensitivity functions for these neurons
Keywords :
brain models; neural nets; vision; contrast sensitivity; fly; fly´s optic lobe; lobula plate; motion-sensitive interneurons; multiplicative inhibitory motion detector; neurons; shunting inhibitory motion detector; steady-state response; visual ganglion;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks, 1990., 1990 IJCNN International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA, USA
DOI :
10.1109/IJCNN.1990.137560
