Title
Translation-invariant pattern recognition based on Synfire chains.
Abstract
.   Most of current neural network architectures are not suited to recognize a pattern at various displaced positions. This lack seems due to the prevailing neuron model which reduces a neuron's information transmission to its firing rate. With this information code, a neuronal assembly cannot distinguish between different combinations of its entities and therefore fails to represent the fine structure within a pattern. In our approach, the main idea of the correlation theory is accepted that spatial relationships in a pattern should be coded by temporal relations in the timing of action potentials. However, we do not assume that synchronized spikes are a sign for strong synapses between the neurons concerned. Instead, the synchronization of Synfire chains can be exploited to produce the relevant timing relationships between the neuronal signals. Therefore, we do not require fast synaptic plasticity to account for the precise timing of action potentials. In order to illustrate this claim, we propose a model for translation-invariant pattern recognition which does not depend on any changes in synaptic efficacies.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1007/s004220050537
Biological Cybernetics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Firing Rate,Synaptic Plasticity,Spatial Relationship,Network Architecture,Information Transmission
Synapse,Synchronization,Biological neuron model,Network architecture,Information transmission,Synaptic plasticity,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Neuron,Machine learning,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
80
6
0340-1200
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.56
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hans-Martin R. Arnoldi1153.69
Karl-hans Englmeier24914.79
Wilfried Brauer3969299.36