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SUMMARY:On the Games Neurons Play (in Visual Cortex) - Steven Zucker
DTSTART:20091027T160000Z
DTEND:20091027T170000Z
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CONTACT:Prof Máté Lengyel
DESCRIPTION:Individual neurons integrate information through biophysical m
 echanisms\, possibly resulting in an action potential. This is commonly in
 terpreted as a decision-making process. Networks of neurons thereby become
  networks of decision makers\, with the ``decision\,'' or output\, of one 
 neuron naturally becoming an input to another. Such cooperating decision m
 akers formally define a mathematical game. I show how the columnar organiz
 ation of visual cortex can be modelled in particular as a polymatrix game\
 , with payoff terms based on the synaptic value of long-range horizontal c
 onnections.
LOCATION:Cambridge University Engineering Department\, CBL Rm #438 (http:/
 /learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions)
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