A spatial map: a propitious choice for constraining the binding problem

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2024-07-02
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Many studies have shown that the human visual system has two major functionally distinct cortical visual pathways: a ventral pathway, thought to be important for object recognition, and a dorsal pathway, thought to be important for spatial cognition. According to our and others previous studies, artificial neural networks with two segregated pathways can determine objects' identities and locations more accurately and efficiently than one-pathway artificial neural networks. In addition, we showed that these two segregated artificial cortical visual pathways can each process identity and spatial information of visual objects independently and differently. However, when using such networks to process multiple objects' identities and locations, a binding problem arises because the networks may not associate each object's identity with its location correctly. In a previous study, we constrained the binding problem by training the artificial identity pathway to retain relative location information of objects. This design uses a location map to constrain the binding problem. One limitation of that study was that we only considered two attributes of our objects (identity and location) and only one possible map (location) for binding. However, typically the brain needs to process and bind many attributes of an object, and any of these attributes could be used to constrain the binding problem. In our current study, using visual objects with multiple attributes (identity, luminance, orientation, and location) that need to be recognized, we tried to find the best map (among an identity map, a luminance map, an orientation map, or a location map) to constrain the binding problem. We found that in our experimental simulations, when visual attributes are independent of each other, a location map is always a better choice than the other kinds of maps examined for constraining the binding problem. Our findings agree with previous neurophysiological findings that show that the organization or map in many visual cortical areas is primarily retinotopic or spatial.

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Han Z, Sereno AB. A spatial map: a propitious choice for constraining the binding problem. Front Comput Neurosci. 2024;18:1397819. Published 2024 Jul 2. doi:10.3389/fncom.2024.1397819
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