22.10.2024

New article published in journal "Scientific Reports"

Title: "Plaid masking explained with input-dependent dendritic nonlinearities." by Bertalmío, M., Durán Vizcaíno, A., Malo, J., & Wichmann, F. A.

Abstract:
A serious obstacle for understanding early spatial vision comes from the failure of the so-called standard model (SM) to predict the perception of plaid masking. But the SM originated from a major oversimplification of single neuron computations, ignoring fundamental properties of dendrites. Here we show that a spatial vision model including computations mimicking the input-dependent nature of dendritic nonlinearities, i.e. including nonlinear neural summation, has the potential to explain plaid masking data.

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