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Primary visual cortex as a saliency map: parameter-free prediction of behavior from V1 physiology
It has been hypothesized that neural activities in the primary visual cortex
(V1) represent a saliency map of the visual field to exogenously guide
attention. This hypothesis has so far provided only qualitative predictions and
their confirmations. We report this hypothesis' first quantitative prediction,
derived without free parameters, and its confirmation by human behavioral data.
The hypothesis provides a direct link between V1 neural responses to a visual
location and the saliency of that location to guide attention exogenously. In a
visual input containing many bars, one of them saliently different from all the
other bars which are identical to each other, saliency at the singleton's
location can be measured by the shortness of the reaction time in a visual
search task to find the singleton. The hypothesis predicts quantitatively the
whole distribution of the reaction times to find a singleton unique in color,
orientation, and motion direction from the reaction times to find other types
of singletons. The predicted distribution matches the experimentally observed
distribution in all six human observers. A requirement for this successful
prediction is a data-motivated assumption that V1 lacks neurons tuned
simultaneously to color, orientation, and motion direction of visual inputs.
Since evidence suggests that extrastriate cortices do have such neurons, we
discuss the possibility that the extrastriate cortices play no role in guiding
exogenous attention so that they can be devoted to other functional roles like
visual decoding or endogenous attention.Comment: 11 figures, 66 page
Unified pictures of Q-balls and Q-tubes
While Q-balls have been investigated intensively for many years, another type
of nontopological solutions, Q-tubes, have not been understood very well. In
this paper we make a comparative study of Q-balls and Q-tubes. First, we
investigate their equilibrium solutions for four types of potentials. We find,
for example, that in some models the charge-energy relation is similar between
Q-balls and Q-tubes while in other models the relation is quite different
between them. To understand what determines the charge-energy relation, which
is a key of stability of the equilibrium solutions, we establish an analytical
method to obtain the two limit values of the energy and the charge. Our
prescription indicates how the existent domain of solutions and their stability
depends on their shape as well as potentials, which would also be useful for a
future study of Q-objects in higher-dimensional spacetime.Comment: 11 pages, 14 figure
Bilinear Equations and B\"acklund Transformation for Generalized Ultradiscrete Soliton Solution
Ultradiscrete soliton equations and B\"acklund transformation for a
generalized soliton solution are presented. The equations include the
ultradiscrete KdV equation or the ultradiscrete Toda equation in a special
case. We also express the solution by the ultradiscrete permanent, which is
defined by ultradiscretizing the signature-free determinant, that is, the
permanent. Moreover, we discuss a relation between B\"acklund transformations
for discrete and ultradiscrete KdV equations.Comment: 11 page
Multiconditional Approximate Reasoning with Continuous Piecewise Linear Membership Functions
It is shown that, for some intersection and implication functions, an exact and efficient algorithm exists for the computation of inference results in multiconditional approximate reasoning on domains which are finite intervals of the real numbers, when membership functions are restricted to functions which are continuous and piecewise linear. An implementation of the algorithm is given in the functional programming language Miranda
A CA Hybrid of the Slow-to-Start and the Optimal Velocity Models and its Flow-Density Relation
The s2s-OVCA is a cellular automaton (CA) hybrid of the optimal velocity (OV)
model and the slow-to-start (s2s) model, which is introduced in the framework
of the ultradiscretization method. Inverse ultradiscretization as well as the
time continuous limit, which lead the s2s-OVCA to an integral-differential
equation, are presented. Several traffic phases such as a free flow as well as
slow flows corresponding to multiple metastable states are observed in the
flow-density relations of the s2s-OVCA. Based on the properties of the
stationary flow of the s2s-OVCA, the formulas for the flow-density relations
are derived
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