How the brain keeps the eyes still.

by: HS Seung

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, Vol. 93, No. 23. (12 November 1996), pp. 13339-13344.

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Abstract

The brain can hold the eyes still because it stores a memory of eye position. The brain's memory of horizontal eye position appears to be represented by persistent neural activity in a network known as the neural integrator, which is localized in the brainstem and cerebellum. Existing experimental data are reinterpreted as evidence for an "attractor hypothesis" that the persistent patterns of activity observed in this network form an attractive line of fixed points in its state space. Line attractor dynamics can be produced in linear or nonlinear neural networks by learning mechanisms that precisely tune positive feedback.

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TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1044634 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1044634 TI - How the brain keeps the eyes still. JF - Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A VL - 93 IS - 23 SP - 13339 EP - 13344 AD - Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA. SN - 0027-8424 N2 - The brain can hold the eyes still because it stores a memory of eye position. The brain's memory of horizontal eye position appears to be represented by persistent neural activity in a network known as the neural integrator, which is localized in the brainstem and cerebellum. Existing experimental data are reinterpreted as evidence for an "attractor hypothesis" that the persistent patterns of activity observed in this network form an attractive line of fixed points in its state space. Line attractor dynamics can be produced in linear or nonlinear neural networks by learning mechanisms that precisely tune positive feedback. KW - attractor KW - working-memory AU - Seung, HS PY - 1996/11/12/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.93.23.13339 ER -

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