Electronic book: Lateral Interactions in the Cortex

[Risto Miikkulainen]

We are pleased to announce the publication of the book

      LATERAL INTERACTIONS IN THE CORTEX: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

This book is entirely electronic, in the HTML format, and can be accessed
through the World Wide Web at the address below. It makes extensive use
of the hypertext structure of HTML documents, including hyperlinks to
researchers, institutions, and publications around the world, many color
illustrations, and even a few mpeg movies. Please read the Preface for
hints on how to get the most out of the book. Below is a short abstract
of the book and table of contents. Enjoy!

-- The Editors
   

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    LATERAL INTERACTIONS IN THE CORTEX: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

               Electronic book, ISBN 0-9647060-0-8
      http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/nn/web-pubs/htmlbook96/
      http://eris.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~edelman/htmlbook96/ (mirror site)
       Austin, TX: The UTCS Neural Network Research Group

  Joseph Sirosh, Risto Miikkulainen, and Yoonsuck Choe (editors)

In the last few years, several new results on the structure, development,
and functional role of lateral connectivity in the cortex have emerged.
These results have led to a new understanding of the cortex as a
continuously-adapting dynamic system shaped by competitive and
cooperative lateral interactions.  Many of the results and their
interpretations are still controversial, and computational and
analytical investigations can serve a pivotal role in establishing this
new model.  This book brings together eleven such investigations, each
from a slightly different perspective and level, aiming at explaining
what function the lateral interactions could play in the development and
information processing in the cortex.  The book serves as an overview of
the kinds of processes that may be going on, laying the groundwork for
understanding information processing in the laterally connected cortex.

 Table of Contents:

 Preface

 1. Introduction 
    - Risto Miikkulainen and Joseph Sirosh 

 2. The Pattern and Functional Significance of Long-Range Interactions 
    in Human Visual Cortex 
    - Uri Polat, Anthony M. Norcia, and Dov Sagi 

 3. Recurrent Inhibition and Clustered Connectivity as a Basis for
    Gabor-like Receptive Fields in the Visual Cortex 
    - Silvio P. Sabatini 

 4. Variable Gain Control in Local Cortical Circuitry Supports
    Context-Dependent Modulation by Long-Range Connections 
    - David C. Somers, Louis J. Toth, Emanuel Todorov, S. Chenchal Rao,
      Dae-Shik Kim, Sacha B. Nelson, Athanassios G. Siapas, and Mriganka Sur

 5. The Role of Lateral Connections in Visual Cortex: 
    Dynamics and Information Processing 
    - Marius Usher, Martin Stemmler, and Ernst Niebur 

 6. Synchronous Oscillations Based on Lateral Connections 
    - DeLiang Wang

 7. A Basis for Long-Range Inhibition Across Cortex 
    - J. G. Taylor and F. N. Alavi 

 8. Self-Organization of Orientation Maps, Lateral Connections, and
    Dynamic Receptive Fields in the Primary Visual Cortex 
    - Joseph Sirosh, Risto Miikkulainen, and James A. Bednar 

 9. Associative Decorrelation Dynamics in Visual Cortex 
    - Dawei W. Dong 

10. A Self-Organizing Neural Network That Learns to Detect and Represent
    Visual Depth from Occlusion Events 
    - Jonathan A. Marshall and Richard Alley

11. Face Recognition by Dynamic Link Matching 
    - Laurenz Wiskott and Christoph von der Malsburg

12. Why Have Lateral Connections in the Visual Cortex? 
    - Shimon Edelman