Learning from Natural Stimuli

Can a small number of general coding principles explain many properties of the visual system? In a number of studies we address this issue and link the principle of temporal coherence to complex cell properties in Primary visual cortex (Kayser et al. 2001; Einhäuser et al. 2002; Körding et al 2004), the extraction of complemetary features (Einhäuser et al. 2003), the learning of texture representations and the generation of representations that are well-suited for invariant object classification (Einhäuser, Hipp, et al., 2005). Recently, we extended the same principle to somatosensory representations. (Hipp, Einhäuser, et al., 2005)