A multi-chip implementation of cortical orientation hypercolumns

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neurophysiology
recurrent neural nets
visual perception
asynchronous digital address event representation
communication protocol
cortical orientation hypercolumns
mammalian primary visual cortex
multichip implementation
multiple orientation selective chips
neuromorphic implementation
orientation selectivity
receptive field centers
recurrent neuron interaction
retinal location
silicon retina
spatial phases
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Choi, Thomas Y. W.
Shi, Bertram E.
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This paper describes a neuromorphic implementation of the orientation hypercolumns found in the mammalian primary visual cortex. A hypercolumn contains a group of neurons that respond to the same retinal location, but with different orientation preferences. The system consists of a single silicon retina feeding multiple orientation selective chips, each of which contains neurons tuned to the same orientation, but with different receptive field centers and spatial phases. All chips operate in continuous time, and communicate with each other using spikes transmitted by the asynchronous digital Address Event Representation communication protocol. This enables us to implement recurrent interactions between neurons within one hypercolumn, even though they are located on different chips. We demonstrate this by measuring shifts in orientation selectivity due to changes in the feedback.

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2004-05-23
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Copyright 2004 IEEE. Reprinted from Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2004), Volume 3, pages 13-16. Publisher URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isNumber=29374 This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Such permission of the IEEE does not in any way imply IEEE endorsement of any of the University of Pennsylvania's products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to pubs-permissions@ieee.org. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it.
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