Summary
Talks from the November 2014 meeting. Hidden Markov Models to improve activity recognition in patients with spinal cord injury and Innate learning: training the brain before the eyes open.
Description
Innate learning: training the brain before the eyes open
By: Isaac Adorno
Amorphous, blob-like patterns of neural activity form and move over the eye during visual development in animals. Why do such patterns exist? We show that these patterns are this way to better prepare the visual system for natural vision. Essentially, these are movies played in the eyes to refine the visual system before the eyes even open. We use python to model the developing visual system, produce an efficient code based on those patterns, and show how that code matches what is seen biologically. In this way, we show that during your early development you are learning from innately generated patterns - a unique twist in the debates of nature and nurture.