Year: 2013
Type: review
Abstract: A central goal of neuroscience is to understand how populations of neurons build and manipulate representations of percepts that provide useful information about the environment. This symposium explores the fundamental properties of these representations and the perceptual spaces in which they are organized. Spanning the domains of color, visual texture, environmental sound, music, tactile quality, and odor, we show how the geometric structures of perceptual spaces can be determined experimentally and how these structures provide insights into the principles of neural coding and the neural mechanisms that generate the codes, and into the neural processing of complex sensory stimuli. The diversity of the neural architecture in these different sensory systems provides an opportunity to compare their different solutions to common problems: the need for dimensionality reduction, strategies for topographic or nontopographic mapping, the utility of the higher-order statistical structure inherent in natural sensory stimuli, and the constraints of neural hardware.
Source: Journal of Neuroscience
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Awards: Neural Computations in Visual Cortex, CAREER: Vibration and Texture Perception, G2652205102, G3446870722, Neural Basis of Shape from Texture, G3681600333, Mechanisms of Color Detection, Induction and Adaptation, CRCNS: Higher-order feature detection in olfactory bulb, G6082845372, G7668218984, G9000069295, Central Processing of Visual Information
OpenAlex ID: W2002507382