Neurocomputing65–66(2005)203–209ModellingavisualdiscriminationtaskB.
Gaillard,J.
FengDepartmentofInformatics,UniversityofSussex,COGS,Falmer,BrightonBN19QH,UKAvailableonline18December2004AbstractWestudytheperformanceofaspikingnetworkmodelbasedonintegrate-and-reneuronswhenperformingabenchmarkdiscriminationtask.
Thetaskconsistsofdeterminingthedirectionofmovingdotsinanoisycontext.
Byvaryingthesynapticparametersoftheintegrate-and-reneurons,weillustratethecounter-intuitiveimportanceofthesecond-orderstatistics(inputnoise)inimprovingthediscriminationaccuracyofthemodel.
Surprisingly,wefoundthatmeasuringtheringrate(FR)ofapopulationofneuronsconsiderablyenhancesthediscriminationaccuracyaswell,incomparisonwiththeringrateofasingleneuron.
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Keywords:Discrimination;Firingrate;Inputnoise;Population1.
IntroductionDiscriminatingbetweeninputsisafundamentaltaskforthevisualsystem.
Inmostcases,theaccuracyofthediscriminationisdirectlylinkedtothereactiontime:thisisexpressedastheFittslaw.
Experimentswithrandomdotsstimuliareclassicalwaystostudyit,NewsomeandShadlen[5]haveexperimentedonthisdiscriminationprocessinMacaquemonkeys.
Specically,theyhavestudiedneuronsfromthelateralintraparietal(LIP)areaofthecortex,whosebehaviorARTICLEINPRESSwww.
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doi:10.
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E-mailaddresses:bg22@sussex.
ac.
uk(B.
Gaillard),jianfeng@sussex.
ac.
uk(J.
Feng).
dependsbothontheinputcategoryandonthedecisionofthemonkey.
So,thoseneuronsaretypicalofsensorimotordecisionprocesses,neithercompletelydeterminedbythestimulinorcompletelyindependentfromit.
Recently,interestingrelationsbetweenreactiontime(RT)anddiscriminationaccuracyhavebeenshown.
Weimplementedaneuralnetworkmodelforthisdiscriminationtaskusingintegrate-and-re(IF)neurons,sothatwecouldmodelthetimecourseofspikegeneration.
Evenifthemodeltakessimplisticassumptions,thissimplicityrenderstheobviousphenomenonitexhibits.
Wemeasuredtheringrate(FR)bothfromasingleandfromapopulationofneurons,whichenabledustomodeladiscriminationtaskwithinabiologicallyrealistictimescale.
Wecomparedthediscriminativeaccuracyofthepopulationmodeltotheperformanceofthesingleneuron,relativelytothenumberofemittedspikesandtotheprocessingtime.
Inourmodel,theroleofinhibitoryinputsandinputnoisecanaccountfortheFittslaw.
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ThediscriminationtaskWehaveimplementedadetailedmodeloftheLIPneuronsthattakepartinthedecisionofthemonkeyduringthetwochoicesdiscriminationtasksetupbyNewsomeetal.
inforexample[5,6].
Inthissetofexperiments,themonkeyshadtowatchadisplayofdots,acertainpercentageofthemmovingconsistentlyinonedirectionoritsopposite,andtherestofthedotsappearingatrandomplacesonthescreenasaperturbingnoise.
Thentheyhadtosignifythedirectionbyaneyemovement.
Thedifcultyofthetaskwascontrolledbymodifyingthepercentageofcoherentlymovingdots.
Weassumethatthediscriminatingneuronsreceivesynapticinputscomposedofanactualsignalperturbedbynoise.
Ifapercentagencofdotsmovescoherentlyinonedirection,thesamepercentageofsynapsesreceivescoherentinput.
Furthermore,weassumethatthespiketrainsarrivingtothosesynapsesarecorrelated.
Therestofthesynapsesreceiverandomlydistributedinputs.
ThesynapticinputsaremodelledasPoissonprocesses.
IthasbeenshownthatthemotiondetectorsofareaMTandMSTthatareinvolvedinthedecisionprocessofthemonkey[1]areconstitutedofcolumnsofneurons,andamodelhasbeenproposedforthisorganization[7].
So,itisprobablethattheneuronsencodingforthesamedirectionareclosetoeachotherandthusresynchronously.
TheoutputsofthediscriminatingneuronsarespiketrainswhoseFRsarerelatedtotheinputofthemovement,sothatwecancrudelymodelthatthisFRbeingbiggerorsmallerthanacriteriameansacommandfortheeyetomoverespectivelyupordown.
SincethereisavariationintheoutputFR,thiscommandcanbeerroneous,e.
g.
theFRisbiggerthanthecriteriumwhenthemovementisdownwards.
Thismimicsanerrormadebythemonkey,andfollowsthebehavioroftherealLIPneuronsthatsuggestthat''thedecisionmightbeembodiedindirecttransforma-tionsbetweentherelevantsensoryandmotorsystems''[5].
Ofcourse,theclearerthestimulus,themorewidelyseparatedtheefferentspiketrains,andthusthelesserrorsthemodelmakes.
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ModeldescriptionThediscriminatingneuronmodelusedhereistheclassicalIFmodel[4,9].
WesimplisticallyassumedthateachsynapsereceivesaPoissonprocesswhoserateisproportionallylinkedtothedirectionofonemovingdotonthescreen,butindependentonthevelocity.
So,forncdotsthatmovecoherently,thencsynapsesthatreceivecoherentinputsarecorrelatedbyaconstantc,andreectthecorrelationofactivityofdifferentsynapsesasstudiedin[3,11].
Usingthediffusionapproximationasin[8,9],wereachthesimpliedfollowingdescriptionofthedynamicsofourdiscriminatingneuron,withVasthemembranepotential:dVVdtgmdtNsdtp;wheremXNcellsj11rlj;ands2XNcellsj11rljXnci1Xncj1;jaic1rliljp:Theratiobetweeninhibitoryinputsandexcitatoryinputs:risvariable.
Thenumberofincomingsynapses(correspondingtothenumberofdotsintheexperiments):Ncell100:ljisthedirectionofthejthdot.
Thetimedecayparameterg20ms:Thetimestepfortheintegrationdt0:01ms:Thecorrelationcoefcientbetweencoherentmotionc0:1:Thenumberofcoherentinputsncisvariable.
Coherentinputsaredotsthatmoveconsistentlyinonedirection.
Thus,thecoherenceisdenedasnc=Ncell:TherestingmembranepotentialVrest0mV:ThethresholdmembranepotentialVthreshold20mV:Nisanormallydistributedrandomvariable,NdtpistheBrownianmotion.
Insteadofusingonlyoneneuron,wecanmeasuretheFRofawholepopulation.
Onaverage,generating100spikeswith100neuronsonlyrequiresthetimeforoneneurontogenerateonespike;increasingthepopulationenablesustogenerateasmanyspikesaswewantinaveryshorttime.
ThisrehabilitatestheFRmeasure,inavisualsystemthatonlyhastimefor''onespikeperneuron''asarguedin[8].
Alltheneuronsofthepopulation,modelledasabove,receiveindependentinputswiththesamerates.
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IncreasingtheinputnoiseWecaninterprettheequationofthedynamicsofthemembranepotentialoftheIFmodel(3)asaleakymembrane(Vdt=g)thatreceivesaninputmmdt;perturbedbyastochasticnoise(sNdtp).
Sincethisstochasticperturbationisproportionalto1randthemeanisproportionalto1r;thestochasticeffectARTICLEINPRESSB.
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Asexplainedin[3],anincreaseinthecoefcientofvariabilityintheinputwillincreasethecoefcientofvariabilityoftheefferentspiketrainoftheneuron.
Thus,intuitively,itshouldbemoredifculttodiscriminatebetweentwoinputsfromtheirefferentFR.
However,Fengandhiscolleagues[2]haveformallyproventhatthisisnotthecasewhenthecoherentinputs(thoseuponwhichwediscriminate)arecorrelated.
Moreprecisely,heobtainedthefollowingconclusion:whenthecorrelationispositive,theaccuracyofthediscriminationincreaseswithr.
Weuseacorrelationcoefcientof0.
1,forsynapsesthatreceivethecoherentinput.
Ithasbeenshown[11]thatinareaV5ofthevisualcortexofthemonkeys,thelevelofcorrelationis0.
1andalthoughbeingweak,hasasignicantimpactontheglobalbehavior.
Thetheoreticallycounter-intuitiveresultsthatthelargerthecoefcientofvariation(CV)oftheinput,thebetterthediscriminationwhichisconrmedbythefollowingsimulationresults.
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Simulationresults4.
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Aperformancecriterium:totalprobabilityofmisclassication(TPM)Foreachsetofparametervalues,weperform100discriminationtrials,foreachdirection,andmeasuretheFReachtime.
TheFRisthenumberofemittedspikesdividedbythetimewindow.
TheexperimenterusestheFRasdecisiveevidence:iftheFRislargerthana'discriminationboundary',thanthemovementisclassiedupward,iftheFRissmaller,thenthemovementisclassieddownward.
ThisdiscriminationboundarydependsontheFRvalues,thusitisoptimalforeachsetofparametervalues.
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Discriminationwitha100spikesExtensivesimulationsovertherangeofr,andovertherangeofinputcoherence(percentageofcoherentlymovingdots),producedthefollowingresults,summarizedinFig.
1:Obviously,theTPMdecreaseswhenthecoherenceincreases:themoreseparatedtheinputsare,theeasierthediscriminationtaskis.
TheTPMdecreaseswhenrincreases.
Thisdecreaseisnotmonotonic.
Forthesingleneuron,thebetterperformanceachievedbyincreasingtheinputnoiseoccursonlyforr40:7:Thepopulationperformsmuchbetter,foralmostoneorderofmagnitude,thanthesingleneuron,anditsTPMdecreasessteadilywithr.
Thebetterperformanceofthepopulationcanbeexplainedasfollows.
Inthepopulationapproach,weusetherst100spikesofa100neuronstomeasuretheFR,whichmeansthatweuseonaverageonespikeperneuron.
Longinterspikeintervals(ISI)areunlikelytobeproduced,becausetherewillbehundredspikesproducedARTICLEINPRESSB.
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TheselongerISIsincreasesignicantlythevariabilityoftheefferentFR,thusincreasingtheTPM.
Thisisthereasonforthebetterperformanceofthepopulation.
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TimerelatedperformanceFormostbiologicalsystems,theabsoluteperformancemusttakeintoaccountnotonlytheaccuracyatrealizingthetask,butalsothetimespenttoachieveit.
Thetimetogeneratespikesvariesalotwhenrincreases.
Infact,whenr1;theonlypostsynapticinputisnoise,andtheFRisverylow.
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ComparisonoftheTPMofonesingleneuronandofapopulation,forvariousrandcoherences,using100spikes.
Leftpanel,coherence15%:Thetimewindowneededtocollectthese100spikesvariesalotwithparametervalues,especiallyitincreasesdramaticallywithr.
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Left:timetogetahundredspikesversusr,withapopulationofahundredneuronsandwithasingleneuron.
Middle:Illustrationofthenumericalestimationofthetimetoreachanacceptablediscriminationperformance(TPM0:1).
Right:comparisonoftheevolutionoftheTPMforlongtimewindows,reachingtoonesecond,withr0:98andr0:Whenwewaitforonesecond,theTPMforr0:98is0.
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Feng/Neurocomputing65–66(2005)203–209207numberofspikessufcienttoreliablymeasureanFRincreasesdramaticallytheprocessingtime.
Thepopulationapproachpartlysolvesthisproblem,but,inordertoputtheTPMinperspective,wehavetomeasuretheevolutionofthequantityoferrorswiththesizeofthetimewindowduringwhichwecollectthespikes.
Thosetimeconsiderationsunderminetheadvantagegainedwithincreasingtheinputnoise;asweseeinFig.
2,itismuchquickertoachieveanacceptableperformancewithexclusivelyexcitatoryinputs.
However,theperformanceofthesystemcanbemuchbetter,overalongtimewindow,withbalancedexcitatoryandinhibitoryinputs(r'1).
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ConclusionsWehaveshownthatmeasuringtheFRofapopulationofneuronsenablesustoovercomethetimescaleimpossibilitiesoftenassociatedwiththeFRapproach.
Althoughaugmentingr,i.
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theinputnoise,increasestheperfor-manceperspike,itincreasesthereactiontimedramatically.
Theprobabilityofmisclassicationdecreasesmuchquickerforsmallerratios.
However,wehaveseenthatonlyratiosclosetoonecanreachacertainlevelofperformanceunreachablebytheFRofapopulationwithexclusivelyexcitatorysynapses.
ThoseverygoodperformancesareachievedatthecostofaverylongRT.
ThisphenomenonofincreasedaccuracywithalongerprocessingtimeinlivingorganismsisknownastheFittslaw.
Furthermore,thefactthatinhibitoryinputsplayacentralroleinadiscriminationtaskisinagreementwithbiologicaldataasreportedin[10,6].
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