Effect of Eye Misalignment on Ocular Dominance according to BCM and PCA Synaptic Modification.
Abstract : In this paper we realistically model a two-eye visual environment and study its effect on single cell synaptic modification. In particular, we study the effect of image misalignment on receptive field formation after eye opening. We show that binocular misalignment effects PCA and BCM learning in different ways. For the BCM learning rule this misalignment is sufficient to produce varying degrees of ocular dominance, whereas for PCA learning binocular neurons emerge in every case. Network results seem dominated by single cell results. Such differences should help us distinguish between these learning rules.