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Do retinal ganglion cells project natural scenes to their principal subspace and whiten them?
Several theories of early sensory processing suggest that it whitens sensory
stimuli. Here, we test three key predictions of the whitening theory using
recordings from 152 ganglion cells in salamander retina responding to natural
movies. We confirm the previous finding that firing rates of ganglion cells are
less correlated compared to natural scenes, although significant correlations
remain. We show that while the power spectrum of ganglion cells decays less
steeply than that of natural scenes, it is not completely flattened. Finally,
we find evidence that only the top principal components of the visual stimulus
are transmitted.Comment: 2016 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computer
A Neuron as a Signal Processing Device
A neuron is a basic physiological and computational unit of the brain. While
much is known about the physiological properties of a neuron, its computational
role is poorly understood. Here we propose to view a neuron as a signal
processing device that represents the incoming streaming data matrix as a
sparse vector of synaptic weights scaled by an outgoing sparse activity vector.
Formally, a neuron minimizes a cost function comprising a cumulative squared
representation error and regularization terms. We derive an online algorithm
that minimizes such cost function by alternating between the minimization with
respect to activity and with respect to synaptic weights. The steps of this
algorithm reproduce well-known physiological properties of a neuron, such as
weighted summation and leaky integration of synaptic inputs, as well as an
Oja-like, but parameter-free, synaptic learning rule. Our theoretical framework
makes several predictions, some of which can be verified by the existing data,
others require further experiments. Such framework should allow modeling the
function of neuronal circuits without necessarily measuring all the microscopic
biophysical parameters, as well as facilitate the design of neuromorphic
electronics.Comment: 2013 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, see
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=681029
Effects of image and advertising efficiency on customer loyalty and antecedents of loyalty: turkish banks sample
The present study examines the relationships between image, advertising efficiency, customer satisfaction, customer expectation, perceived quality, perceived value, customer complaint and customer loyalty. These variables are increasingly recognised as being sources of competitive advantage.
However, little empirical research has been conducted to examine these variables simultaneously and their relationships with post-purchase behaviour especially service organizations like banks. The present study was therefore designed to develop an understanding of the relationships between these variables and their influence on loyalty. An integrative model was developed and tested by using data collected from the customers of Turkish banks. The results reveal that bank image and advertising efficiency influence customer loyalty and antecedents of loyalty significantly
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