IWANN '01 Proceedings of the 6th International Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks: Bio-inspired Applications of Connectionism-Part II
Democratic Integration: Self-Organized Integration of Adaptive Cues
Neural Computation
Figure-ground separation by cue integration
Neural Computation
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The human brain has to integrate the inputs it receives from different sensory modalities into a coherent description of its environment. This integration is often adaptive, showing recalibration or suppression of discordant sensory modalities. This paper proposes a qualitative theory of sensory integration which relates these adaptation phenomena to the anatomy of the neocortex and a rapid reversible synaptic mechanism as proposed in von der Malsburg''s correlation theory of brain function.