A model for activity-driven development of auditory receptive fields

This paper presents a stimulus-driven model for the development of auditory receptive fields. The model is shown to develop all receptive field types found in the mammalian cochlear nucleus, as defined by their frequency responses. The success of this model in developing auditory receptive fields and its similarity to a model that was previously shown to develop visual receptive fields demonstrates that one development scheme is capable of forming appropriate receptive field structures for two different sensory modalities, vision and audition.