Slowness and sparseness lead to place, head-direction, and spatial-view cells.

We present a model for the self-organized formation of place cells, head-direction cells, and spatial-view cells in the hippocampal formation based on unsupervised learning on quasi-natural visual stimuli. The model comprises a hierarchy of Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) nodes, which were recently show...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mathias Franzius, Henning Sprekeler, Laurenz Wiskott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-08-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1963505?pdf=render