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Conscious multisensory integration: Introducing a universal contextual field in biological and deep artificial neural networks
Adeel, Ahsan
Adeel, Ahsan
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2020-05-19
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Universal Contextual Field
Pyramidal Cell
Multisensory Integration
Coherent Infomax Neuron
Contextually-Adaptive Neuron
deep neural network
1103 Clinical Sciences
1109 Neurosciences
Universal Contextual Field
Pyramidal Cell
Multisensory Integration
Coherent Infomax Neuron
Contextually-Adaptive Neuron
deep neural network
Pyramidal Cell
Multisensory Integration
Coherent Infomax Neuron
Contextually-Adaptive Neuron
deep neural network
1103 Clinical Sciences
1109 Neurosciences
Universal Contextual Field
Pyramidal Cell
Multisensory Integration
Coherent Infomax Neuron
Contextually-Adaptive Neuron
deep neural network
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Conscious awareness plays a major role in human cognition and adaptive behaviour, though its function in multisensory integration is not yet fully understood, hence, questions remain: How does the brain integrate the incoming multisensory signals with respect to different external environments? How are the roles of these multisensory signals defined to adhere to the anticipated behavioural-constraint of the environment? This work seeks to articulate a novel theory on conscious multisensory integration that addresses the aforementioned research challenges. Specifically, the well-established contextual field (CF) in pyramidal cells and coherent infomax theory [1][2] is split into two functionally distinctive integrated input fields: local contextual field (LCF) and universal contextual field (UCF). LCF defines the modulatory sensory signal coming from some other parts of the brain (in principle from anywhere in space-time) and UCF defines the outside environment and anticipated behaviour (based on past learning and reasoning). Both LCF and UCF are integrated with the receptive field (RF) to develop a new class of contextually-adaptive neuron (CAN), which adapts to changing environments. The proposed theory is evaluated using human contextual audio-visual (AV) speech modelling. Simulation results provide new insights into contextual modulation and selective multisensory information amplification/suppression. The central hypothesis reviewed here suggests that the pyramidal cell, in addition to the classical excitatory and inhibitory signals, receives LCF and UCF inputs. The UCF (as a steering force or tuner) plays a decisive role in precisely selecting whether to amplify/suppress the transmission of relevant/irrelevant feedforward signals, without changing the content e.g., which information is worth paying more attention to? This, as opposed to, unconditional excitatory and inhibitory activity in existing deep neural networks (DNNs), is called conditional amplification/suppression.
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Adeel, A. (2020) Conscious multisensory integration: Introducing a universal contextual field in biological and deep artificial neural networks, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 14:15
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© 2020 The Authors. Published by Frontiers Media. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence.
The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2020.00015
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1662-5188