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JOSH MCDERMOTT: We
got sound working.

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And so I'm going to show you
a couple of these movies that

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didn't quite work last time.

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This first one is
a demonstration

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of a center-surround
receptive field in the retina.

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So the movie is made
in an experiment where

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there's an electrode
that is recording

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from a retinal ganglion cell.

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The eye is pointed
towards a screen.

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This is a video of the screen.

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And onto the screen,
they project light.

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And they will investigate the
effect of the pattern of light

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on the response of the neuron.

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So let's see if we can get
a sense of what's going on.

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Oh, and the other
thing that I should say

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is, as is fairly conventional
with this kind of thing,

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the output of the
electrode is being fed

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to an amplifier and a speaker.

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So you're going to listen to it.

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So every time there's
an action potential,

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it'll show up as a
click that you can hear.

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So you're going to be
listening for the crackling

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sound of spiking activity.

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JOSH MCDERMOTT: OK.

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I'm going to pause real quick.

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So one thing that you
should have noticed

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is that, as this spot of
light is moved around,

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there's this region of space
where, when the spot of light

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sweeps through there, the
response of the neuron

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increases.

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But you can also hear that,
even when the spot of light

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is around in other places, there
still sometimes are spikes.

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And that's because there's
spontaneous activity that's

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being emitted by the cell.

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So now, they've centered
the spot of light

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in the approximate location of
the receptive field, the place

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that's driving the neuron.

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And now, it's
flashed on and off.

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And you can see that the flashes
illicit bursts of spikes.

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Oops.

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JOSH MCDERMOTT:
So the point here

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is that the small
circle gives a bigger

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response than the big circle.

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JOSH MCDERMOTT: That's because
there's an inhibitory surround.

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JOSH MCDERMOTT:
The point of this

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is the dark circle
kills the response.

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And then you get spikes
once it disappears.

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JOSH MCDERMOTT: All right.

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I think you get the idea.

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So that's the center-surround
receptive field.

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There was one other
that we were going

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to look at last time that did
not work, which I'll show you

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now, which is a similar
kind of experiment,

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but mapping out an
orientation-selective receptive

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field.

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So let's check this one out.

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JOSH MCDERMOTT: OK, so the
region with the X's, the region

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that increases the response
when there's light there.

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The O's, or the triangles,
whatever that is,

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is the region where the
response is suppressed by light.

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JOSH MCDERMOTT: You can see
it's orientation-selective.

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So now, you change the
orientation and the response

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changes.

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And then you hit the right
one, you get a bigger response.

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JOSH MCDERMOTT: So that's
how receptive field

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mapping worked in the old days.

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So last time, we talked
about primary visual cortex.

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So just to remind
everybody, so this

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is what we're talking about.

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It's the visual system.

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Light enters the eye.

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There's an image
formed on the retina.

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There's a set of layers of
cells, the output of which

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comes from the retinal
ganglion cells.

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That goes through
the optic nerve

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to the LGN, part
of the thalamus.

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And from there, it projects
to the visual cortex.

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And the primary visual cortex
is the main projection site

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of the thalamus.

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It's the biggest region
in the visual cortex.

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We talked about how one of the
key organizational principles

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of the visual cortex
is retinotopy.

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So there are maps
of the visual field

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that you can see in the brain.

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And they distinguish
different visual areas,

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as we'll see later.

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We talked about the principle
of cortical magnification.

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So one of the consequences
for the foveal organization

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of the retina, where there's
a high density of receptors

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at the center of
gaze, is that there's

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more area in the cortex that's
devoted to the center of gaze.

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And you can see that
in various ways.

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We then talked about
orientation selectivity,

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including this video
that we just saw,

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and how we can
approximate the receptive

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fields of
orientation-selective neurons

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with linear filters that have
these kinds of oriented forms.

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We then talked about
this simple model that's

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been proposed for
how you might create

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an orientation-selective
neuron from the responses

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of center-surround receptive
fields at an earlier

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stage of the visual system by
having appropriate convergence,

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and then talked about an
experiment that provides

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evidence for this, where
the experiment found pairs

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of neurons in the LGN and V1
that were likely to be connected

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based on the cross-correlogram,
and then looked

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at the correspondence
between the receptive fields

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and found that the
correspondence was pretty good,

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providing evidence
for that simple model.

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We then talked about
the columnar structure

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of the visual cortex.

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Again, a pretty
defining characteristic

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of lots of cortical
areas is that they're

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organized into columns, meaning
that, if you are inserting

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an electrode perpendicular
to the cortical surface,

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the neurons that
you'll encounter

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will tend to have fairly
consistent properties.

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So in particular, there
are orientation columns.

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So all of the
different cells that

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are sampled on
electrode penetration 1

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have the same
orientation preference.

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That's what those little
line segments are indicating,

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whereas if you insert
the electrode obliquely

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to the cortical surface, you
go through a bunch of columns.

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And so the
orientation preference

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changes as a function of
the electrode position.

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We saw some pictures
of orientation columns.

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And then we talked
about the ambiguity

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of the response
of a single neuron

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and how, in this
particular example,

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contrast and orientation
are confounded,

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and how you could resolve that
ambiguity using a population

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code.

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So if you were
able to look across

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a set of neurons that varied in
their preferred orientations,

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even in a situation where
the contrast is varied,

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such that you could get
the same response for all

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these different
orientations in one neuron,

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if you were able to analyze
the population, in particular

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detect the peak of
the distribution,

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you would be able to infer
the correct orientation

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despite the change in contrast.

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And then we ended class
by experiencing the tilt

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aftereffect, where we induced a
temporary change in your brain

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by forcing you or
imploring you to stare

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at the adapting stimulus,
which is this oriented grating.

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And you found that if
you stared at this thing

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for about a minute, and then
you looked at the test stimulus,

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even though the test stimulus
is actually vertical,

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it appears to be a little
bit off of vertical.

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So that's what's known
as the tilt aftereffect.

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A few details
about this-- so you

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may recall that, when we
were doing the adaptation,

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I instructed you to
move your eyes around

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inside the gray circle.

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And the reason for
this is that adaptation

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happens at all stages
of the visual system.

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And in particular, it also
happens at the retina,

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even at the level of
the photoreceptors.

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And so if you maintain very
tight fixation on something,

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you will actually get
very strong adaptation

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of the photoreceptors.

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And you'll get an afterimage.

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You'll see the negative of the
image that you were looking at.

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And that might be
distracting and might

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make it a little harder
to actually observe

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the orientation.

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But by moving your eyes
around in that gray circle,

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you don't systematically
adapt the photoreceptors

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because you'll be varying
the position of your eyes

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by more than the spatial
frequency of the grating.

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So that's just a trick to
get these effects to work

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pretty well.

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So we got the tilt aftereffect.

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And if you would like
to, when you go home,

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you can try adapting
to this one.

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And you will find that you
would get the aftereffect

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in the opposite direction.

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All right.

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So the question is,
how can we understand

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these kinds of effects?

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What do they tell us about the
brain and the visual system?

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And so in general, we
think that aftereffects

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are due to something
that happens

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in your visual
system, whereby there

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is a decrease in the
responsiveness of neurons

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after a period of
prolonged activity.

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And so the idea is that, when
you are adapting yourself--

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so you're staring
at this grating.

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And so the neurons that are
responsive to this grating

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are firing pretty hard for
an extended period of time,

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like a minute.

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And for some, as of
now, unspecified reason,

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we postulate that
they become less

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responsive as a consequence of
having fired pretty intensively

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for a period of time.

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For instance, you might
imagine that there's

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a metabolic resource
that's needed for spiking.

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And that gets temporarily
exhausted or depleted

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a little bit.

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So we believe that that's
really what is underlying this.

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But how can we understand
this in more detail?

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So here's the idea.

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So remember, we just talked
about population codes.

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So the idea of the
population code

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is that you get some stimulus.

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There's a population of neurons.

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These triangular-looking
things are the tuning curves

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of a hypothetical
set of neurons.

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This is plotting the response
of the neuron as a function

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of orientation on the x-axis.

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And then the little
line segment at the top

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is symbolizing the preferred
orientation of a given neuron.

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So this is the population
response normally

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to the vertical grating.

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And what you can
see here-- so now,

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the x-axis here,
the line segment

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denotes the preferred
orientation of a cell.

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And you can see
that the cell that

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prefers the vertical orientation
gives you the highest response.

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And then the ones on either
side give you a lower response.

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And you get this bell-shaped
curve with a peak at vertical.

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And so the hypothesis
is that there

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is a mechanism that
analyzes this population

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response, detects the peak,
understands that the peak is

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occurring at a neuron whose
preferred orientation is

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vertical.

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And that causes you to perceive
a vertical orientation.

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So that's what we
think happens normally.

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Now, we did this crazy
thing to your visual system,

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where we made you stare at
that thing for a minute.

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And so the hypothesis
is that now

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the responsiveness of some of
the neurons has been altered.

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And that's symbolized by the
tuning curves being lower

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on the graph.

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And we hypothesize that the
decrease in responsiveness

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is proportional to how strongly
the neurons were firing when

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you were doing the adaptation.

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And so in particular,
the biggest decrease

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here is at the orientation
that's equal to the adapting

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orientation.

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And then there's a graded
effect on either side.

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So the consequence of that is
that, when you subsequently

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view the vertical grating again,
the population response has now

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been altered.

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So normally, the
peak of the response

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occurs in the vertical neuron.

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But because of the
adaptation, you

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can see that's no
longer the case.

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So we adapted the
stuff over here.

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And that means that the
distribution has shifted.

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And now, the peak
of the distribution

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is this orientation
here, which is off

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of vertical in the
opposite direction.

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And so if you believe that
there is some mechanism that

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can detect the peak and use
that to infer the orientation,

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then that predicts that
the perceived orientation

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will be shifted in the
direction that you experience

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after you've adapted.

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So that's typically how
we explain aftereffects

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and how they are believed
to provide evidence

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for these population codes.

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Yeah?

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STUDENT: So in the
last slide, why

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are all of the peaks
at the same height?

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JOSH MCDERMOTT: So
these are tuning curves.

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So that's just telling you how
much the cell would respond

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to each of these orientations.

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This is the actual response of
the different cells to that one

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orientation.

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But the point is that
all of these cells

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initially are
equally responsive.

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But then they become
differentially responsive

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temporarily
following adaptation.

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Any other questions about this?

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So there's lots of aftereffects,
especially in vision.

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They're actually like a
lot more powerful in vision

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than in audition.

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It's interesting to think about
why that might be the case.

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But we'll encounter lots
of other aftereffects.

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And they were classically
a pretty common tool

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that was used by
perception scientists

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to try to infer things that
were happening in the brain.

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So the tilt aftereffect is one.

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We'll also experience
the motion aftereffect

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when we start to
talk about motion.

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That one's really powerful,
lots of aftereffects.

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So we've got we've got these
orientation-selective neurons.

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We can adapt them.

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And we discussed how
they have these receptive

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fields that you can summarize
with pictures like this.

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And the fact that we can
draw a picture like this

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really is a
reflection of the fact

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that the neuron is
well-approximated

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by a linear filter.

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So a linear filter
has this property

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that you can define coefficients
at different positions in space.

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And that does a good job
of predicting the response.

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And so it's pretty common to
observe responses that are--

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receptive fields that
are either even or odd.

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And you might
wonder, OK, well, why

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do we have these different
types of receptive fields?

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And so in the early days, the
people who initially discovered

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orientation selectivity,
Hubel and Wiesel,

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tended to interpret
these receptive

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fields with Intuitive
verbal descriptions.

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So they would talk
about these kinds

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of receptive fields
as edge detectors

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and these kinds of receptive
fields as bar detectors.

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And so there's this very
appealing intuitive theory

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of vision that of fit into,
where the idea is that you're

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going to initially detect
edges, and then use

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those edges to detect
and recognize objects.

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And so initially, when
this was discovered,

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these orientation-selective
receptive fields

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fit into that view.

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So the challenge with that way
of thinking about things-- well,

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there's lots of challenges.

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But one of the
challenges is that edges

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are, in practice, very hard to
detect with local operators.

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So there was lots of work in the
early days of computer vision--

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1970s, 1980s-- trying to
figure out how to detect edges.

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And they would
include ingredients

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like these linear
filters, and then

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do some other stuff
because the raw responses

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of the linear filters
usually wasn't enough.

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And they still
didn't work great.

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So this is an example of a
very well-known classical edge

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detector known as the
Canny edge detector,

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run on this particular image.

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And so you can see
that you get things out

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that are not ridiculous.

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But the output really
is pretty far from maybe

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providing what you
might think would

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be a complete description
of all of the edges

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that you can see in the image.

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So there's some that
get completely missed,

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like the edge of the chin.

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And so in general,
edge detection

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is a fairly-- is a
pretty hard problem.

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And I think one very
likely possibility

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is that this intuitive idea
that one could separate

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the stages of detecting
edges and detecting objects

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is not a great idea,
that, in practice, like

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the edges are inferred
along with the objects.

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But that's a longer
discussion we can have later.

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So that was these
original intuitions

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about orientation selectivity.

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It's got some issues.

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Another challenge to that
way of thinking about things

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is that if you actually look
at the responses of the kinds

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of filters that you see in
the visual system in the way

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simple cells, if you
look at their responses

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to actual edges
and actual lines,

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the responses are
pretty complicated.

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And so here's an example,
where we've got an input image.

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So that's an image.

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It's actually a one-dimensional
slice through the image.

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So the y-axis
would be intensity.

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And the x-axis would just
be one spatial dimension.

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And so you can see that there
are two step edges where

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the intensity goes up,
and then two lines--

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one light and one dark.

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And then B and C
plot the convolution

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of an odd symmetric
filter-- that's

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B-- and an even symmetric
filter-- that's C.

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So we're measuring the
response of the filter

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at every position in the image.

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And that's what a
convolution does.

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And again, naively,
you might expect

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that an edge detector is
just going to give you

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a delta function at the edges.

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And the line detector
would give you

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a delta function at the lines.

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But in actuality,
all of the filters

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kind of respond at
all of the features.

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But the responses are
complicated and wiggly.

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So it's not to
say that you might

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be able to take these, and
then do something else,

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and maybe infer something.

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But at any rate,
the responses don't

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completely, straightforwardly
detect edges and lines

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in an intuitive way.

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And so I would say, so there
have been multiple iterations

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of attempts to explain
and understand orientation

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selectivity in computational
terms, some of which

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are beyond the
scope of the class.

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I would say the
relation of simple cells

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and orientation
selectivity to function

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remains challenging
to verbalize,

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to explain in an intuitive way.

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But it's nonetheless the case
that similar looking filters

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pretty consistently emerge in
the initial stages of systems

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that are trained
on vision tasks.

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So this is an example.

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So these are the
first layer filters

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of a convolutional
neural network

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optimized to recognize objects.

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This is a very famous
convolutional neural network.

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This was the first one that
produced really impressive

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performance on ImageNet, a
classical object recognition

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task.

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This was back in 2012.

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And this opened the
gates of deep learning

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and got everybody really
excited about deep learning.

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Each one of these is
a different filter.

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And you can see that they
look a lot like simple cells,

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in the sense that they're
orientation-selective to tune

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to different orientations.

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And so this is a very
common observation.

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So you very often see
orientation selectivity emerging

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as the initial stage
of analysis in systems

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that are trained on
sensory problems,

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in particular vision problems.

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So mathematically,
if we actually

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want to summarize the
form of a simple cell,

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it's common to describe
them as Gabor functions.

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So a Gabor function
is the product

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of a sinusoid with a Gaussian.

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So we've got a sinusoid
up here and a Gaussian.

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And we just pointwise
multiply them.

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And you get this thing,
where it starts out at 0.

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And then the wiggles
increase at some rate.

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And then they decrease again.

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This is a Gabor function
displayed as an actual image.

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So both of these types of
receptive fields, even and odd,

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can be described
as Gabor functions.

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The only difference is whether
you use a sine or cosine,

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because the even and
odd functions are

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90 degrees out of phase.

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So that's at least a
mathematical description

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of what these simple
cells are doing.

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Now, the other
wrinkle to the story

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is that, in addition to simple
cells, in primary visual cortex,

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there's another
type of cell that

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became known as complex cells.

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And complex cells, they differ
from simple cells in that they

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respond to-- so they're
still orientation-selective,

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but they respond to
an oriented stimulus

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no matter where it falls
in the receptive field.

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So remember in that
video that we just saw,

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where they were mapping out the
orientation-selective receptive

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field, it was very sensitive
to where that bar was placed.

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So if you got it in
exactly the right place,

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you'd get a big response.

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But then if you shifted
it a little bit over,

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the response would decrease.

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So that's characteristic
of a simple cell

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and consistent with
the idea that there's

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a linear filter that's got
this excitatory region.

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And so if you hit that with
light, you get a big response.

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And if you're in the
inhibitory side lobe,

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you get a small response.

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But complex cells
behave very differently.

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They respond no matter
where the stimulus

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falls on the receptive field.

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And as a consequence,
they can't be

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decomposed into these excitatory
and inhibitory response zones.

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So here's just an
example picture

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that differentiates
the two types of cells.

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So we've got the receptive
field area in gray.

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The stimulus is the orange bar.

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And the simple cell
response, you can see,

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is high when the orange bar
is at the right orientation

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and in exactly the
right position.

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And then if you shift the orange
bar a little bit to the right,

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the simple cell
response drops off.

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Now, it's also
orientation-selective.

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So if you get the
wrong orientation,

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you also get a lower response.

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The complex cell
response, by contrast,

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is high at both
of the positions.

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But it's still
orientation-selective.

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So this is, again, an
empirical discovery

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in primary visual cortex.

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You've got these two
types of neurons.

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And it turns out that
complex cell responses

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can be modeled by combining even
and odd simple cell responses.

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And when you model simple
cells as Gabor functions,

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this turns out to be
mathematically very simple.

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So an even receptive
field would be a Gabor

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that has a cosine in it.

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So G here is a Gaussian.

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And that's a cosine with
some spatial frequency.

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That's the odd
function with sine.

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And so if you just
square the responses

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of the even and odd
receptive fields

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and then add them
together, because

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of the trigonometric
identity that sine

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squared plus cosine
squared equals 1,

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you end up getting this
very simple expression,

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where the sinusoids drop
out of the expression.

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And you're just left with a
Gaussian spatial dependency.

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All right.

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So this is what is often
known as the energy

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model of complex cells.

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And we now have a
second-- or of a third row

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to our primary visual
cortex response graph

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here for edges and lines.

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And the bottom row
is energy computed

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from the combination
of the odd symmetric

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and the even symmetric responses
by squaring them and summing

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them.

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And now, you get this nice
little bump anytime there's

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an image feature.

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So this energy model, it
provides a reasonable model

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of a complex cell.

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So there aren't any more of
these excitatory and inhibitory

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lobes.

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It inherits the tuning that is
endowed from simple cell input.

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And so I should say that what's
kind of implicit in here, which

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I should make
explicit, is the idea

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that the complex cell
is created by combining

00:26:11.900 --> 00:26:13.680 align:middle line:90%
the responses of simple cells.

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So just as the simple
cell, we believe,

00:26:17.180 --> 00:26:20.180 align:middle line:84%
could be created
by wiring together

00:26:20.180 --> 00:26:22.460 align:middle line:84%
center-surround receptive
fields in the LGN,

00:26:22.460 --> 00:26:23.940 align:middle line:84%
the idea is that
the complex cell

00:26:23.940 --> 00:26:26.860 align:middle line:84%
is created by wiring
together simple cells that

00:26:26.860 --> 00:26:31.200 align:middle line:84%
have the same orientation
selectivity and different phase,

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or even and odd
receptive fields.

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So that's the notion.

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And the consequence is
that they kind of inherit

00:26:40.020 --> 00:26:41.900 align:middle line:90%
some of the tuning properties--

00:26:41.900 --> 00:26:43.620 align:middle line:90%
orientation selectivity.

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Sometimes, there's also
motion selectivity.

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But the response
becomes nonlinear.

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Any questions about simple
versus complex cells?

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So this is a picture that
captures like a fairly

00:27:13.580 --> 00:27:16.830 align:middle line:90%
standard model of early vision.

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When people talk
about early vision,

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normally they mean roughly
up to primary visual cortex.

00:27:22.990 --> 00:27:28.210 align:middle line:84%
So it's capturing early
vision using convolution.

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So we've got an image there.

00:27:30.090 --> 00:27:32.030 align:middle line:90%
It's an image of beans.

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And then that image is
convolved at each step

00:27:35.750 --> 00:27:41.110 align:middle line:84%
with an operator that is
embodying a particular stage

00:27:41.110 --> 00:27:42.530 align:middle line:90%
of visual processing.

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So we've got
center-surround cells here

00:27:45.310 --> 00:27:48.950 align:middle line:84%
that capture what happens
in the retina and the LGN,

00:27:48.950 --> 00:27:50.950 align:middle line:84%
where the center-surround
receptive fields are

00:27:50.950 --> 00:27:52.050 align:middle line:90%
different sizes.

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Then there's
orientation-selective filtering,

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and then the energy
extraction step.

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So again, the idea is that
the convolution operation

00:28:02.830 --> 00:28:07.910 align:middle line:84%
is used to represent the
response of a large population

00:28:07.910 --> 00:28:10.590 align:middle line:84%
of neurons that have the
same kind of receptive field,

00:28:10.590 --> 00:28:13.770 align:middle line:84%
but positioned at different
spatial locations.

00:28:13.770 --> 00:28:17.030 align:middle line:84%
And so you can think
of the response

00:28:17.030 --> 00:28:19.070 align:middle line:84%
of a stage of the
visual system kind

00:28:19.070 --> 00:28:21.053 align:middle line:90%
of as a function of an image.

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So you have the
image as an input.

00:28:22.470 --> 00:28:26.990 align:middle line:84%
And you get this response
out that looks like an image.

00:28:26.990 --> 00:28:30.870 align:middle line:84%
And the response is high
in these different places

00:28:30.870 --> 00:28:33.350 align:middle line:84%
where the original
image, in this case,

00:28:33.350 --> 00:28:37.710 align:middle line:84%
had orientation energy that
was at the right orientation

00:28:37.710 --> 00:28:41.173 align:middle line:84%
for that cell, and same
here, and same here.

00:28:41.173 --> 00:28:42.590 align:middle line:84%
And if you look
back in the image,

00:28:42.590 --> 00:28:45.470 align:middle line:84%
you can probably convince
yourself that's the case.

00:28:45.470 --> 00:28:48.330 align:middle line:84%
But then when you get
to the energy quantity,

00:28:48.330 --> 00:28:53.230 align:middle line:84%
you can see that, well, the
energy is high any place

00:28:53.230 --> 00:28:58.590 align:middle line:84%
that either has high or very
low activity in the simple cell

00:28:58.590 --> 00:29:01.950 align:middle line:84%
responses, because you get the
squaring operation and summing.

00:29:01.950 --> 00:29:04.350 align:middle line:84%
And so that causes it to
be spatially a little bit

00:29:04.350 --> 00:29:06.030 align:middle line:90%
more coarse.

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Now, you might wonder,
OK, what good is this?

00:29:09.550 --> 00:29:13.230 align:middle line:84%
What does this have
to do with vision?

00:29:13.230 --> 00:29:15.390 align:middle line:90%
That's a legitimate question.

00:29:15.390 --> 00:29:20.190 align:middle line:84%
And so I think the broader
comment that I would make here

00:29:20.190 --> 00:29:24.830 align:middle line:84%
is that there's a bunch of
different angles at which to try

00:29:24.830 --> 00:29:26.970 align:middle line:90%
to understand perception.

00:29:26.970 --> 00:29:30.310 align:middle line:84%
And one of those angles is
to go into a sensory system,

00:29:30.310 --> 00:29:33.910 align:middle line:84%
and to look at what's there, and
to try to measure what's there,

00:29:33.910 --> 00:29:35.410 align:middle line:90%
and characterize that.

00:29:35.410 --> 00:29:36.990 align:middle line:84%
And that's what
we've been talking

00:29:36.990 --> 00:29:38.850 align:middle line:84%
about over the past
couple of lectures.

00:29:38.850 --> 00:29:42.390 align:middle line:84%
And that actually
had some success

00:29:42.390 --> 00:29:44.650 align:middle line:84%
in the first few stages
of the visual system,

00:29:44.650 --> 00:29:47.630 align:middle line:84%
in the sense that the
measurements often-- they

00:29:47.630 --> 00:29:49.770 align:middle line:84%
ended up being
mathematically interpretable.

00:29:49.770 --> 00:29:52.910 align:middle line:84%
And people were able to come up
with mathematical descriptions

00:29:52.910 --> 00:29:56.390 align:middle line:84%
of the responses
of the neurons that

00:29:56.390 --> 00:30:00.030 align:middle line:84%
were pretty good, in the
sense of being able to predict

00:30:00.030 --> 00:30:01.830 align:middle line:90%
the responses of the neurons.

00:30:01.830 --> 00:30:05.090 align:middle line:84%
Now, does that tell us how
these things help us see?

00:30:05.090 --> 00:30:05.970 align:middle line:90%
No, they don't.

00:30:05.970 --> 00:30:08.370 align:middle line:84%
These are just descriptions
of parts of the system.

00:30:08.370 --> 00:30:12.575 align:middle line:84%
But they are made with
the hope and expectation

00:30:12.575 --> 00:30:14.950 align:middle line:84%
that they will end up being
relevant to our understanding

00:30:14.950 --> 00:30:15.610 align:middle line:90%
of how we see.

00:30:15.610 --> 00:30:17.350 align:middle line:84%
Now, the other way
to get at perception

00:30:17.350 --> 00:30:19.990 align:middle line:84%
is to start with
perception itself,

00:30:19.990 --> 00:30:24.117 align:middle line:84%
to think about the things that
we can do, and to measure that,

00:30:24.117 --> 00:30:25.950 align:middle line:84%
and to try to come up
with theories of that,

00:30:25.950 --> 00:30:28.790 align:middle line:84%
and then eventually try to
connect that back to neurons.

00:30:28.790 --> 00:30:31.350 align:middle line:84%
So remember, we talked
about different levels

00:30:31.350 --> 00:30:32.883 align:middle line:90%
of understanding.

00:30:32.883 --> 00:30:35.050 align:middle line:84%
There's the level of the
computation, the algorithm,

00:30:35.050 --> 00:30:36.830 align:middle line:90%
and the implementation.

00:30:36.830 --> 00:30:40.030 align:middle line:84%
At various points in the
history of this field,

00:30:40.030 --> 00:30:42.398 align:middle line:84%
sometimes people start
with the implementation.

00:30:42.398 --> 00:30:44.190 align:middle line:84%
So they're actually
measuring from neurons,

00:30:44.190 --> 00:30:45.770 align:middle line:90%
trying to document that.

00:30:45.770 --> 00:30:48.930 align:middle line:84%
And some people really believe
that that's where you start.

00:30:48.930 --> 00:30:51.010 align:middle line:84%
And that's the best
place to get rolling.

00:30:51.010 --> 00:30:53.183 align:middle line:84%
In other cases,
people actually start

00:30:53.183 --> 00:30:54.850 align:middle line:84%
by trying to understand
the computation,

00:30:54.850 --> 00:30:57.017 align:middle line:84%
trying to understand the
function that the system is

00:30:57.017 --> 00:31:01.190 align:middle line:84%
carrying out and how
to understand that

00:31:01.190 --> 00:31:02.910 align:middle line:84%
in mathematical terms,
and then worrying

00:31:02.910 --> 00:31:04.590 align:middle line:90%
about the implementation later.

00:31:04.590 --> 00:31:07.470 align:middle line:84%
And different sections
of this course

00:31:07.470 --> 00:31:09.710 align:middle line:84%
will have more of
one perspective

00:31:09.710 --> 00:31:10.910 align:middle line:90%
and more of the other.

00:31:10.910 --> 00:31:13.750 align:middle line:84%
And ideally, all of these things
are going to come together.

00:31:13.750 --> 00:31:16.230 align:middle line:84%
And they don't always,
at least not yet.

00:31:16.230 --> 00:31:20.730 align:middle line:84%
But hopefully, eventually,
that will be the case.

00:31:20.730 --> 00:31:23.350 align:middle line:90%
So big ideas so far--

00:31:23.350 --> 00:31:26.830 align:middle line:84%
we've got these stages of
linear filtering in the retina

00:31:26.830 --> 00:31:29.290 align:middle line:84%
and in primary visual
cortex with simple cells,

00:31:29.290 --> 00:31:33.030 align:middle line:84%
and then this one kind
of non-linear operation

00:31:33.030 --> 00:31:35.310 align:middle line:84%
that happens in complex
cells that we can capture

00:31:35.310 --> 00:31:37.670 align:middle line:90%
with the notion of energy.

00:31:37.670 --> 00:31:39.650 align:middle line:84%
Any questions about
that before I move on?

00:31:39.650 --> 00:31:48.150 align:middle line:90%


00:31:48.150 --> 00:31:49.190 align:middle line:90%
Yeah?

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STUDENT: Can you
repeat again what

00:31:52.030 --> 00:31:56.790 align:middle line:84%
energy expresses in relation
to the original image,

00:31:56.790 --> 00:32:00.150 align:middle line:90%
with the beans example?

00:32:00.150 --> 00:32:02.070 align:middle line:84%
JOSH MCDERMOTT:
Yeah, so the energy

00:32:02.070 --> 00:32:08.670 align:middle line:90%
will be high whenever there is--

00:32:08.670 --> 00:32:11.710 align:middle line:84%
whenever an oriented
filter that's

00:32:11.710 --> 00:32:16.590 align:middle line:84%
at the orientation, which
you're measuring the energy,

00:32:16.590 --> 00:32:19.950 align:middle line:84%
whenever an oriented filter,
whether it's even or odd,

00:32:19.950 --> 00:32:22.130 align:middle line:90%
provides a large response.

00:32:22.130 --> 00:32:27.110 align:middle line:90%


00:32:27.110 --> 00:32:32.030 align:middle line:84%
Yeah, so I think, here, see
how there's a white blob here?

00:32:32.030 --> 00:32:35.630 align:middle line:84%
And it's because there's
a oriented bean that's

00:32:35.630 --> 00:32:37.110 align:middle line:90%
in that place in the image.

00:32:37.110 --> 00:32:41.750 align:middle line:90%


00:32:41.750 --> 00:32:44.390 align:middle line:84%
So there's a place where
the edge-- unfortunately, I

00:32:44.390 --> 00:32:46.450 align:middle line:90%
need a point here.

00:32:46.450 --> 00:32:49.010 align:middle line:84%
But there's a place where
it goes from dark to light,

00:32:49.010 --> 00:32:51.343 align:middle line:84%
and then another place where
it goes from light to dark.

00:32:51.343 --> 00:32:53.230 align:middle line:90%
And so those will produce--

00:32:53.230 --> 00:32:55.710 align:middle line:84%
one of those would produce
a positive response

00:32:55.710 --> 00:32:57.050 align:middle line:90%
in an odd receptive field.

00:32:57.050 --> 00:32:58.230 align:middle line:84%
The other would produce
a negative response

00:32:58.230 --> 00:32:59.355 align:middle line:90%
in the odd receptive field.

00:32:59.355 --> 00:33:01.282 align:middle line:84%
But the energy squares
that and sums that.

00:33:01.282 --> 00:33:02.990 align:middle line:84%
So it doesn't really
care about the sign.

00:33:02.990 --> 00:33:05.870 align:middle line:84%
It's just telling you
there's stuff there

00:33:05.870 --> 00:33:08.270 align:middle line:90%
that's at that orientation.

00:33:08.270 --> 00:33:10.870 align:middle line:84%
So that's one way to maybe
intuitively describe it.

00:33:10.870 --> 00:33:11.563 align:middle line:90%
Yeah?

00:33:11.563 --> 00:33:13.230 align:middle line:84%
STUDENT: So I think
it's true that there

00:33:13.230 --> 00:33:18.990 align:middle line:84%
are center-around neurons in
the LGN that detect color.

00:33:18.990 --> 00:33:22.350 align:middle line:84%
How does that get incorporated
in the orientation and energy

00:33:22.350 --> 00:33:23.400 align:middle line:90%
extraction steps?

00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:25.650 align:middle line:84%
JOSH MCDERMOTT: Well, in
this model, there's no color.

00:33:25.650 --> 00:33:28.310 align:middle line:90%
This is a black and white model.

00:33:28.310 --> 00:33:30.150 align:middle line:84%
In the visual
system, I mean, we're

00:33:30.150 --> 00:33:33.510 align:middle line:84%
going to talk a little bit more
about that when we get to color.

00:33:33.510 --> 00:33:34.890 align:middle line:90%
But that's part of the story.

00:33:34.890 --> 00:33:38.870 align:middle line:84%
And in fact, I mean, one of the
things that has been debated

00:33:38.870 --> 00:33:43.910 align:middle line:84%
is the extent to which
orientation-selective mechanisms

00:33:43.910 --> 00:33:48.950 align:middle line:84%
are also color-selective, or
whether color vision is maybe

00:33:48.950 --> 00:33:51.058 align:middle line:90%
a slightly different thing.

00:33:51.058 --> 00:33:52.350 align:middle line:90%
But we'll see evidence of that.

00:33:52.350 --> 00:33:55.110 align:middle line:84%
I think we now
mostly know that you

00:33:55.110 --> 00:33:57.590 align:middle line:84%
can find color
selectivity in conjunction

00:33:57.590 --> 00:34:00.995 align:middle line:90%
with orientation selectivity.

00:34:00.995 --> 00:34:02.870 align:middle line:84%
Yeah, there are some
interesting differences,

00:34:02.870 --> 00:34:05.350 align:middle line:84%
like the spatial
resolution of color vision

00:34:05.350 --> 00:34:07.230 align:middle line:90%
tends to be pretty poor.

00:34:07.230 --> 00:34:10.830 align:middle line:84%
So there are indications
that there is some functional

00:34:10.830 --> 00:34:15.710 align:middle line:84%
separation between certain kinds
of high resolution, pattern

00:34:15.710 --> 00:34:17.510 align:middle line:90%
analysis, and color.

00:34:17.510 --> 00:34:18.690 align:middle line:90%
But more to come on that.

00:34:18.690 --> 00:34:24.309 align:middle line:90%


00:34:24.309 --> 00:34:26.409 align:middle line:90%
So you get to the visual cortex.

00:34:26.409 --> 00:34:28.830 align:middle line:84%
And you see some new
stuff that was not

00:34:28.830 --> 00:34:33.826 align:middle line:84%
present in the responses of
the retina or the thalamus.

00:34:33.826 --> 00:34:35.909 align:middle line:84%
The first example of that
we've been talking about

00:34:35.909 --> 00:34:38.870 align:middle line:90%
is orientation selectivity.

00:34:38.870 --> 00:34:42.429 align:middle line:84%
Another example is
that you find neurons

00:34:42.429 --> 00:34:46.070 align:middle line:90%
that respond to both eyes.

00:34:46.070 --> 00:34:50.550 align:middle line:84%
So prior to primary visual
cortex, all of the cells

00:34:50.550 --> 00:34:53.469 align:middle line:84%
get input from either the
right eye or the left eye.

00:34:53.469 --> 00:34:55.510 align:middle line:84%
So of course, in
the retina, you're

00:34:55.510 --> 00:34:57.350 align:middle line:84%
either in the right
eye or the left eye.

00:34:57.350 --> 00:35:02.350 align:middle line:84%
But then you get to the LGN
and different layers of the LGN

00:35:02.350 --> 00:35:04.470 align:middle line:84%
are carrying information
from either the right

00:35:04.470 --> 00:35:05.830 align:middle line:90%
or the left eye.

00:35:05.830 --> 00:35:07.890 align:middle line:84%
But then in primary
visual cortex,

00:35:07.890 --> 00:35:11.150 align:middle line:84%
you see neurons that
get input from both eyes

00:35:11.150 --> 00:35:14.230 align:middle line:84%
and that will respond more
when both eyes are stimulated.

00:35:14.230 --> 00:35:17.750 align:middle line:84%
And those are called
binocular neurons.

00:35:17.750 --> 00:35:22.230 align:middle line:84%
But it's nonetheless the case
that many cells are still driven

00:35:22.230 --> 00:35:25.470 align:middle line:90%
more by one eye than the other.

00:35:25.470 --> 00:35:30.470 align:middle line:84%
And so this is a histogram
in two different species

00:35:30.470 --> 00:35:36.010 align:middle line:84%
that plots the extent to which
there is ocular dominance.

00:35:36.010 --> 00:35:39.190 align:middle line:84%
So again, I don't know
why this is so blurry.

00:35:39.190 --> 00:35:42.510 align:middle line:84%
But on this end would indicate
that the neuron is dominated

00:35:42.510 --> 00:35:44.270 align:middle line:90%
by the contralateral eye--

00:35:44.270 --> 00:35:45.993 align:middle line:84%
contralateral is
on opposite side.

00:35:45.993 --> 00:35:47.910 align:middle line:84%
On this end, it would
mean that it's dominated

00:35:47.910 --> 00:35:49.130 align:middle line:90%
by the ipsilateral eye.

00:35:49.130 --> 00:35:51.390 align:middle line:84%
And the point is that
there's a lot of mass

00:35:51.390 --> 00:35:53.430 align:middle line:90%
out here and out here.

00:35:53.430 --> 00:35:56.390 align:middle line:84%
So a lot of neurons are
dominated by one eye.

00:35:56.390 --> 00:36:00.510 align:middle line:84%
And that shows up in
another structural feature

00:36:00.510 --> 00:36:03.750 align:middle line:84%
of the visual cortex, which
is ocular dominance columns.

00:36:03.750 --> 00:36:05.710 align:middle line:84%
And so that is that,
again, if you're

00:36:05.710 --> 00:36:10.870 align:middle line:84%
looking down at the cortex--
this is the cortical surface.

00:36:10.870 --> 00:36:14.550 align:middle line:84%
And this is the result of
an experiment where people

00:36:14.550 --> 00:36:17.590 align:middle line:84%
were able to image the
activity in the visual cortex

00:36:17.590 --> 00:36:19.910 align:middle line:84%
while an animal
had one eye open.

00:36:19.910 --> 00:36:23.370 align:middle line:84%
So one eye is stimulated
and the other eye is closed.

00:36:23.370 --> 00:36:26.470 align:middle line:84%
And you see this patchy
pattern of activation,

00:36:26.470 --> 00:36:29.350 align:middle line:84%
where there are bits of the
cortex that are a lot more

00:36:29.350 --> 00:36:30.610 align:middle line:90%
active than others.

00:36:30.610 --> 00:36:31.850 align:middle line:90%
That's ocular dominance.

00:36:31.850 --> 00:36:34.150 align:middle line:84%
So the response in the
white bits of the cortex

00:36:34.150 --> 00:36:39.230 align:middle line:84%
is driven by the eye
that's open predominantly.

00:36:39.230 --> 00:36:42.170 align:middle line:84%
So we've got orientation columns
and ocular dominance columns.

00:36:42.170 --> 00:36:49.030 align:middle line:84%
And they're interspersed
in some kind of way.

00:36:49.030 --> 00:36:51.347 align:middle line:84%
So this is from optical
imaging in animals.

00:36:51.347 --> 00:36:52.930 align:middle line:84%
You can also see
this stuff in humans.

00:36:52.930 --> 00:36:56.550 align:middle line:84%
This is an fMRI experiment
that measured ocular dominance

00:36:56.550 --> 00:36:57.710 align:middle line:90%
columns.

00:36:57.710 --> 00:37:01.830 align:middle line:84%
This is two particular
subjects, and then overlaid them

00:37:01.830 --> 00:37:05.210 align:middle line:90%
on orientation columns.

00:37:05.210 --> 00:37:10.510 align:middle line:84%
So these columns gave
rise to this cartoon model

00:37:10.510 --> 00:37:13.397 align:middle line:84%
of the visual cortex,
where the idea

00:37:13.397 --> 00:37:15.230 align:middle line:84%
is that you could think
of the visual cortex

00:37:15.230 --> 00:37:21.207 align:middle line:84%
as a set of hypercolumns, where
each hypercolumn contains all

00:37:21.207 --> 00:37:22.790 align:middle line:84%
of the different
kinds of measurements

00:37:22.790 --> 00:37:25.590 align:middle line:84%
that you would want to
make at one point in space.

00:37:25.590 --> 00:37:30.750 align:middle line:84%
And those measurements are
different orientations,

00:37:30.750 --> 00:37:32.350 align:middle line:90%
as you can see here.

00:37:32.350 --> 00:37:35.550 align:middle line:84%
And also, the left
and the right eye.

00:37:35.550 --> 00:37:38.190 align:middle line:84%
And this is also
sometimes referred to

00:37:38.190 --> 00:37:39.610 align:middle line:90%
as the ice cube model.

00:37:39.610 --> 00:37:42.830 align:middle line:90%


00:37:42.830 --> 00:37:46.130 align:middle line:84%
So how does all of this
hooked up to the LGN?

00:37:46.130 --> 00:37:47.890 align:middle line:90%
So remember, this is the LGN.

00:37:47.890 --> 00:37:49.810 align:middle line:90%
The LGN's got these six layers.

00:37:49.810 --> 00:37:53.230 align:middle line:84%
The top four are the
parvocellular layers.

00:37:53.230 --> 00:37:56.310 align:middle line:84%
The bottom two are the
magnocellular layers.

00:37:56.310 --> 00:38:00.680 align:middle line:84%
This is a picture, though, that
shows the labeling from one eye.

00:38:00.680 --> 00:38:03.600 align:middle line:84%
And so you can see
that alternate layers

00:38:03.600 --> 00:38:06.000 align:middle line:90%
are getting input from one eye.

00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:08.280 align:middle line:84%
So each layer gets input
from either the left eye

00:38:08.280 --> 00:38:10.240 align:middle line:90%
or the right eye.

00:38:10.240 --> 00:38:14.380 align:middle line:84%
And that one, that one, that
one are getting it from one eye,

00:38:14.380 --> 00:38:15.420 align:middle line:90%
not sure which one.

00:38:15.420 --> 00:38:17.840 align:middle line:90%


00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:18.340 align:middle line:90%
All right.

00:38:18.340 --> 00:38:24.140 align:middle line:84%
So this is showing how the
LGN provides input to V1.

00:38:24.140 --> 00:38:28.320 align:middle line:84%
So in general,
most cortical areas

00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:32.460 align:middle line:84%
have the input
coming in at layer 4.

00:38:32.460 --> 00:38:35.940 align:middle line:84%
So layer 4 is the input layer
for the cortex, typically.

00:38:35.940 --> 00:38:40.360 align:middle line:84%
And in V1, a lot of the
input comes into layer 4C.

00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:43.560 align:middle line:84%
And so we've got these two
layers of the LGN-- one

00:38:43.560 --> 00:38:45.680 align:middle line:84%
for the right eye
one for the left eye.

00:38:45.680 --> 00:38:49.320 align:middle line:84%
And then those have these
alternating spatial projections

00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:51.780 align:middle line:84%
that correspond to
ocular dominance columns.

00:38:51.780 --> 00:38:56.360 align:middle line:90%


00:38:56.360 --> 00:38:58.720 align:middle line:84%
The one other
wrinkle is that-- so

00:38:58.720 --> 00:39:02.760 align:middle line:84%
remember how we talked about how
we've got parvocellular layers

00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:03.883 align:middle line:90%
and magnocellular layers.

00:39:03.883 --> 00:39:05.800 align:middle line:84%
Remember, we talked about
these lesion studies

00:39:05.800 --> 00:39:09.320 align:middle line:84%
where, if you selectively
lesion the parvocellular layers,

00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:11.540 align:middle line:84%
you get deficits in
color perception.

00:39:11.540 --> 00:39:14.320 align:middle line:84%
If you selectively lesion
the magnocellular layers,

00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:17.840 align:middle line:84%
you get deficits in
motion perception.

00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:21.520 align:middle line:84%
And so, unsurprisingly,
the responses

00:39:21.520 --> 00:39:24.040 align:middle line:84%
from the parvocellular and
the magnocellular layers

00:39:24.040 --> 00:39:25.300 align:middle line:90%
remain segregated.

00:39:25.300 --> 00:39:29.040 align:middle line:84%
And they, in fact, project to
different sublayers of this

00:39:29.040 --> 00:39:30.440 align:middle line:90%
layer 4C.

00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:33.820 align:middle line:84%
So 4C alpha is where the
magnocellular layers end up.

00:39:33.820 --> 00:39:37.560 align:middle line:84%
And 4C beta is where the
parvocellular layers end up.

00:39:37.560 --> 00:39:40.160 align:middle line:84%
So in general, the
central theme here

00:39:40.160 --> 00:39:43.760 align:middle line:84%
is, especially in the early
stages of the visual system,

00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:46.860 align:middle line:84%
there's really fairly striking
segregation of function.

00:39:46.860 --> 00:39:48.860 align:middle line:84%
You've got these
distinct cell classes.

00:39:48.860 --> 00:39:51.260 align:middle line:84%
There's a small number of
cell classes in the retina.

00:39:51.260 --> 00:39:52.760 align:middle line:90%
They have different properties.

00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:55.040 align:middle line:84%
Those project to different
parts of the ln that

00:39:55.040 --> 00:39:58.220 align:middle line:84%
have different properties,
different impact on behavior.

00:39:58.220 --> 00:40:01.200 align:middle line:84%
And then that remains
segregated through V1

00:40:01.200 --> 00:40:02.940 align:middle line:90%
and also a little bit beyond.

00:40:02.940 --> 00:40:06.480 align:middle line:90%


00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:10.840 align:middle line:84%
So a lot of the input
comes in here at layer 4C.

00:40:10.840 --> 00:40:12.760 align:middle line:90%
And then this is just a diagram.

00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:14.620 align:middle line:84%
I don't expect people
to memorize this.

00:40:14.620 --> 00:40:21.360 align:middle line:84%
This is just included
for cultural literacy.

00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:26.100 align:middle line:84%
You can see connections
between different layers of V1.

00:40:26.100 --> 00:40:28.480 align:middle line:84%
So you get the input
coming in here at layer 4,

00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:30.277 align:middle line:84%
and then projections
to other layers.

00:40:30.277 --> 00:40:32.360 align:middle line:84%
And then you can see there
are certain layers that

00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:36.560 align:middle line:84%
are like the output layers
that tend to send responses

00:40:36.560 --> 00:40:38.300 align:middle line:90%
to other cortical areas.

00:40:38.300 --> 00:40:40.400 align:middle line:84%
There's other layers that
tend to send responses

00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:42.020 align:middle line:84%
to non-cortical
brain structures.

00:40:42.020 --> 00:40:46.240 align:middle line:84%
So there's just a lot of
interesting anatomical

00:40:46.240 --> 00:40:48.080 align:middle line:90%
segregation.

00:40:48.080 --> 00:40:51.832 align:middle line:84%
And every decade or so, more
is learned about this stuff.

00:40:51.832 --> 00:40:53.540 align:middle line:84%
And so the pictures
get more complicated.

00:40:53.540 --> 00:40:56.960 align:middle line:84%
So this was the diagram that you
would find in a textbook back

00:40:56.960 --> 00:41:00.520 align:middle line:84%
in 1995, where pretty
much people just

00:41:00.520 --> 00:41:02.880 align:middle line:84%
talked about magnocellular
and parvocellular layers

00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:05.120 align:middle line:90%
from the LGN.

00:41:05.120 --> 00:41:06.660 align:middle line:90%
This is a more recent diagram.

00:41:06.660 --> 00:41:09.160 align:middle line:84%
And so now, there are
these koniocellular cells

00:41:09.160 --> 00:41:12.040 align:middle line:84%
that are in between the
parvocellular layers

00:41:12.040 --> 00:41:13.920 align:middle line:90%
and the magnocellular layers.

00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:16.600 align:middle line:84%
And those project to
a different place.

00:41:16.600 --> 00:41:19.720 align:middle line:84%
So as time goes on, these
things will probably

00:41:19.720 --> 00:41:21.140 align:middle line:90%
get more and more complicated.

00:41:21.140 --> 00:41:25.710 align:middle line:90%


00:41:25.710 --> 00:41:27.600 align:middle line:84%
Another thing that
you see in the cortex

00:41:27.600 --> 00:41:28.740 align:middle line:90%
is direction selectivity.

00:41:28.740 --> 00:41:30.520 align:middle line:84%
So here's an example
of a cell that

00:41:30.520 --> 00:41:33.440 align:middle line:84%
is selective for the
direction of motion.

00:41:33.440 --> 00:41:38.883 align:middle line:84%
So the dashed rectangle here
is the approximate location

00:41:38.883 --> 00:41:40.800 align:middle line:84%
of the receptive field,
the part of space that

00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:42.220 align:middle line:90%
causes the neuron to respond.

00:41:42.220 --> 00:41:44.600 align:middle line:84%
There's a bar that's being
moved back and forth.

00:41:44.600 --> 00:41:47.560 align:middle line:84%
You can see that there is a
preferred orientation, which

00:41:47.560 --> 00:41:49.580 align:middle line:90%
is this oblique orientation.

00:41:49.580 --> 00:41:52.280 align:middle line:84%
But you can also see that the
response is much bigger when

00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:53.880 align:middle line:84%
it moves in one
direction than when

00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:56.560 align:middle line:90%
it moves in another direction.

00:41:56.560 --> 00:41:59.480 align:middle line:84%
So direction selectivity
is pretty common

00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:03.560 align:middle line:84%
and, again, present
in layers that

00:42:03.560 --> 00:42:08.220 align:middle line:84%
tend to get input from
magnocellular parts of the LGN.

00:42:08.220 --> 00:42:11.060 align:middle line:90%


00:42:11.060 --> 00:42:12.620 align:middle line:84%
And there's other
complicated stuff.

00:42:12.620 --> 00:42:16.880 align:middle line:84%
This is a property that is
often called endstopping.

00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:19.520 align:middle line:84%
So if you have an
orientation-selective neuron

00:42:19.520 --> 00:42:21.720 align:middle line:84%
that's, in this case,
selective or horizontal,

00:42:21.720 --> 00:42:26.060 align:middle line:84%
if you make the line too long,
the response actually decreases.

00:42:26.060 --> 00:42:28.840 align:middle line:84%
So there's an
inhibitory surround

00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:31.360 align:middle line:84%
on top of the
orientation-selective response.

00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:32.960 align:middle line:84%
So that's also a
pretty common thing

00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:36.940 align:middle line:84%
that you see in the cortex,
is inhibitory surrounds,

00:42:36.940 --> 00:42:39.460 align:middle line:84%
even though it's not just a
center-surround receptive field.

00:42:39.460 --> 00:42:42.040 align:middle line:84%
You have some kind of
complicated tuning, and then

00:42:42.040 --> 00:42:45.900 align:middle line:90%
a surround on top of that.

00:42:45.900 --> 00:42:51.160 align:middle line:84%
So the key take-home themes
that you should take away

00:42:51.160 --> 00:42:54.880 align:middle line:84%
from this lecture are
the idea of retinotopy

00:42:54.880 --> 00:42:58.440 align:middle line:84%
as an organizational principle
for the visual system

00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:01.160 align:middle line:84%
and cortical magnification--
so again, in the retina,

00:43:01.160 --> 00:43:03.680 align:middle line:84%
we've got the
foveal organization

00:43:03.680 --> 00:43:04.740 align:middle line:90%
of the receptor lattice.

00:43:04.740 --> 00:43:06.960 align:middle line:84%
And that translates into
cortical magnification

00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:08.880 align:middle line:90%
when you get to the cortex--

00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:11.880 align:middle line:84%
orientation selectivity
and the idea

00:43:11.880 --> 00:43:14.680 align:middle line:84%
of how you would create
orientation selectivity

00:43:14.680 --> 00:43:17.040 align:middle line:84%
in a neural network
with input from center

00:43:17.040 --> 00:43:20.380 align:middle line:84%
surround receptive fields,
simple versus complex cells--

00:43:20.380 --> 00:43:23.560 align:middle line:84%
so simple cells are
approximately linear.

00:43:23.560 --> 00:43:26.320 align:middle line:84%
The receptive field consists
of excitatory and inhibitory

00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:28.800 align:middle line:84%
regions that are
spatially localized.

00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:30.620 align:middle line:90%
Complex cells are nonlinear.

00:43:30.620 --> 00:43:35.400 align:middle line:84%
They don't have these
distinct spatial subregions--

00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:37.960 align:middle line:84%
the idea of population
codes and how

00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:39.740 align:middle line:84%
they are used to
infer aftereffects

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and how after effects provide
evidence for population codes--

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the idea that if you analyze
a population of neurons,

00:43:45.680 --> 00:43:48.320 align:middle line:84%
you can estimate
stimulus properties--

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the use of convolution to
simulate a population of neurons

00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:54.120 align:middle line:84%
that has the same kind
of receptive field

00:43:54.120 --> 00:43:57.120 align:middle line:84%
at different spatial
positions, columnar

00:43:57.120 --> 00:44:00.440 align:middle line:84%
structure as a central
organizational principle

00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:03.480 align:middle line:84%
of the brain, these
anatomical regularities

00:44:03.480 --> 00:44:06.880 align:middle line:84%
that we've been talking about,
about how the connections are

00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:11.055 align:middle line:84%
very non-random, and then the
zoo of response properties

00:44:11.055 --> 00:44:13.680 align:middle line:84%
that emerge in the cortex, where
there's a whole bunch of stuff

00:44:13.680 --> 00:44:16.460 align:middle line:84%
that you see in primary
visual cortex that's

00:44:16.460 --> 00:44:20.860 align:middle line:84%
not evident or much less evident
in the retina and the thalamus.

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So we talked about
orientation selectivity,

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binocularity, direction
selectivity, endstopping,

00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:29.200 align:middle line:90%
stuff like that.

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Any questions on
primary visual cortex?

00:44:32.100 --> 00:44:36.800 align:middle line:90%


00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:40.840 align:middle line:84%
So we've just been talking
about how the receptive fields

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that you see in V1, they vary in
a bunch of different respects--

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orientation tuning, phase,
even versus odd, endstopping,

00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:48.940 align:middle line:84%
binocularity,
direction selectivity,

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whether it's simple or complex.

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And they also vary in
what's called spatial scale.

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So this is a picture that
shows receptive fields measured

00:44:59.480 --> 00:45:03.600 align:middle line:84%
at a given point in
cortex that represents

00:45:03.600 --> 00:45:04.840 align:middle line:90%
a particular position.

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So each one of these boxes
represents a receptive field.

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So it's roughly
the region of space

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that drives the
response of the neuron.

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And so the point is that the
boxes are different sizes.

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So some of them
are kind of small.

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And some of them
are kind of big.

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So in any given
region of the cortex,

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the receptive fields will all be
at pretty much the same place.

00:45:25.500 --> 00:45:29.520 align:middle line:84%
But there's a fair bit of
variation in their size.

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So what does this mean?

00:45:30.500 --> 00:45:35.280 align:middle line:84%
Well, remember back when we were
talking about sound and hearing?

00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:37.840 align:middle line:84%
We talked about Fourier's
theorem and the fact

00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:41.440 align:middle line:84%
that Fourier's theorem
shows that any signal can

00:45:41.440 --> 00:45:44.480 align:middle line:84%
be written as a sum of sine
waves of different frequencies

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and phases.

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And so we were
talking about this

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in the context of sound,
where this dimension was time

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and this dimension was pressure.

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But Fourier's theorem
is just a general fact

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about any kind of signal.

00:46:00.060 --> 00:46:03.680 align:middle line:90%


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So an image is just
an array of numbers.

00:46:07.120 --> 00:46:07.980 align:middle line:90%
So it's a signal.

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Fourier's theorem applies
just as it does to sound.

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And so it follows
that any image can

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be decomposed into
a sum of sine wave

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gratings of different
orientations, frequencies,

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and phases.

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And the different
spatial frequencies

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capture what are called
different scales of image

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structure.

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So what do we mean by that?

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Well, this is a sinusoidal
component of an image.

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It's a sinusoidal grating.

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So what that means is that
the image intensity varies

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sinusoidally, in this case
across the horizontal dimension.

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So back when we were
talking about sound,

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I was telling you that
the y-axis was pressure

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and the x-axis was time.

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Now that we're
talking about images,

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the y-axis will be
intensity and the x-axis

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would be space or
position in the image.

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So here's one sine wave grating.

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These are gratings that have
different spatial frequencies.

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So you can see that the rate
at which the intensity varies

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across space is different
in the three cases.

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So spatial frequency
is typically

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measured in cycles per degree.

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And so this would be a low
spatial frequency grating.

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And this would be a higher
spatial frequency grating.

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The grating can
also vary in phase.

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So these gratings have the same
frequency, but different phases.

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So the exact position
of the ripples

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is different in the three cases.

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And so you can take these
sine wave grating images

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and you can add them.

00:47:42.860 --> 00:47:45.920 align:middle line:90%
So here's one grating.

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And here's another
grating that's

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three times the spatial
frequency of the first one.

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And you add them up.

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And you get this more
complicated thing.

00:47:52.140 --> 00:47:56.180 align:middle line:90%


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So here's what happens
when you add up

00:47:58.720 --> 00:48:01.740 align:middle line:84%
these two gratings in
different phase relationships.

00:48:01.740 --> 00:48:05.260 align:middle line:84%
So these are the
same two gratings,

00:48:05.260 --> 00:48:07.140 align:middle line:90%
but with different phases.

00:48:07.140 --> 00:48:10.660 align:middle line:84%
And so here's the image that
results in these two cases.

00:48:10.660 --> 00:48:13.100 align:middle line:84%
And then here's a slice
through the image.

00:48:13.100 --> 00:48:15.480 align:middle line:84%
So now, again, the
y-axis is intensity

00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:17.020 align:middle line:90%
and the x-axis is space.

00:48:17.020 --> 00:48:19.170 align:middle line:84%
And so it's a little
easier to inspect.

00:48:19.170 --> 00:48:20.920 align:middle line:84%
And so you get these
different shapes that

00:48:20.920 --> 00:48:24.200 align:middle line:90%
result from different phases.

00:48:24.200 --> 00:48:24.740 align:middle line:90%
All right.

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Now, one of the things that we
talked a lot about with sound

00:48:28.040 --> 00:48:30.920 align:middle line:84%
and that you got some experience
with on the problem sets

00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:33.740 align:middle line:84%
and possibly in your
illusion labs is filtering.

00:48:33.740 --> 00:48:37.280 align:middle line:84%
So filtering is an operation
that changes the frequency

00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:38.970 align:middle line:90%
content of a signal.

00:48:38.970 --> 00:48:41.490 align:middle line:84%
And so images can
also be filtered.

00:48:41.490 --> 00:48:47.050 align:middle line:84%
Now, there's one wrinkle of
doing this in the image domain

00:48:47.050 --> 00:48:50.170 align:middle line:84%
that is sometimes a little
bit hard to think about.

00:48:50.170 --> 00:48:52.650 align:middle line:84%
And that is that images
are two dimensional.

00:48:52.650 --> 00:48:55.690 align:middle line:84%
And so there's
actually two dimensions

00:48:55.690 --> 00:49:01.730 align:middle line:84%
of spatial frequency, x
and y, whereas with sound,

00:49:01.730 --> 00:49:05.610 align:middle line:84%
when we plotted the amplitude
spectrum or the power spectrum,

00:49:05.610 --> 00:49:07.510 align:middle line:84%
we'd get a
one-dimensional thing.

00:49:07.510 --> 00:49:11.370 align:middle line:84%
So you have power on the y-axis
and frequency on the x-axis.

00:49:11.370 --> 00:49:14.590 align:middle line:84%
So now, with images, there's
two dimensions of frequency.

00:49:14.590 --> 00:49:17.210 align:middle line:84%
And so you have to
display the power spectrum

00:49:17.210 --> 00:49:19.450 align:middle line:90%
as a three-dimensional plot.

00:49:19.450 --> 00:49:22.210 align:middle line:90%
So now, this is amplitude here.

00:49:22.210 --> 00:49:24.350 align:middle line:84%
And this is one dimension
of spatial frequency.

00:49:24.350 --> 00:49:27.050 align:middle line:84%
And this is another dimension
of spatial frequency.

00:49:27.050 --> 00:49:31.890 align:middle line:84%
And so what this is showing is
the frequency representation

00:49:31.890 --> 00:49:34.250 align:middle line:90%
of this image of a face.

00:49:34.250 --> 00:49:35.930 align:middle line:90%
And what this shows--

00:49:35.930 --> 00:49:40.530 align:middle line:84%
so at the center, that
corresponds to the 0 spatial

00:49:40.530 --> 00:49:43.223 align:middle line:90%
frequency, or the DC component.

00:49:43.223 --> 00:49:44.890 align:middle line:84%
And then the frequencies
around that are

00:49:44.890 --> 00:49:46.190 align:middle line:90%
the low spatial frequencies.

00:49:46.190 --> 00:49:48.408 align:middle line:84%
And then as you get out
into the extremes here,

00:49:48.408 --> 00:49:49.950 align:middle line:84%
those are higher
spatial frequencies.

00:49:49.950 --> 00:49:52.490 align:middle line:84%
And so in general,
natural images

00:49:52.490 --> 00:49:55.810 align:middle line:84%
tend to have frequency
spectra that are lowpass.

00:49:55.810 --> 00:49:58.490 align:middle line:84%
So they tend to have more power
at low spatial frequencies

00:49:58.490 --> 00:49:59.510 align:middle line:90%
and less at high.

00:49:59.510 --> 00:50:01.710 align:middle line:84%
And so this is just
another example of that.

00:50:01.710 --> 00:50:05.870 align:middle line:84%
So that's the frequency
representation of the image.

00:50:05.870 --> 00:50:09.010 align:middle line:84%
And just as if you
have an audio waveform,

00:50:09.010 --> 00:50:11.130 align:middle line:84%
you can get the power
spectrum by taking

00:50:11.130 --> 00:50:13.127 align:middle line:90%
the fast Fourier transform.

00:50:13.127 --> 00:50:15.710 align:middle line:84%
There's a Fourier transform that
can be performed on an image.

00:50:15.710 --> 00:50:20.810 align:middle line:84%
It's just a two-dimensional
Fourier transform

00:50:20.810 --> 00:50:22.690 align:middle line:90%
And so you can have filters.

00:50:22.690 --> 00:50:25.230 align:middle line:84%
And these are transfer
functions of two filters.

00:50:25.230 --> 00:50:27.370 align:middle line:90%
So this is a lowpass filter.

00:50:27.370 --> 00:50:30.650 align:middle line:84%
So what this does is it
passes all of the stuff that's

00:50:30.650 --> 00:50:36.130 align:middle line:84%
right in the center of the
frequency plane and attenuates

00:50:36.130 --> 00:50:37.890 align:middle line:90%
everything beyond that.

00:50:37.890 --> 00:50:40.890 align:middle line:84%
This is a highpass filter
that passes just the very high

00:50:40.890 --> 00:50:43.330 align:middle line:84%
spatial frequencies
and kills off

00:50:43.330 --> 00:50:45.490 align:middle line:90%
the lowest spatial frequencies.

00:50:45.490 --> 00:50:51.530 align:middle line:84%
And so we can take a lowpass
filter, apply it to the image,

00:50:51.530 --> 00:50:53.290 align:middle line:90%
and this is what you get.

00:50:53.290 --> 00:50:57.210 align:middle line:84%
You get something
that is blurry.

00:50:57.210 --> 00:50:59.730 align:middle line:84%
This is a highpass filter
applied to the image.

00:50:59.730 --> 00:51:01.530 align:middle line:84%
And you get something
that looks like this,

00:51:01.530 --> 00:51:05.370 align:middle line:84%
where a lot of the
edges are accentuated.

00:51:05.370 --> 00:51:08.010 align:middle line:84%
And so intuitively,
what has happened here

00:51:08.010 --> 00:51:11.010 align:middle line:84%
is that the lowpass
filter is preserving

00:51:11.010 --> 00:51:13.210 align:middle line:90%
the low spatial frequencies.

00:51:13.210 --> 00:51:15.170 align:middle line:84%
So those are like the
parts of the image that

00:51:15.170 --> 00:51:18.650 align:middle line:90%
vary slowly across space.

00:51:18.650 --> 00:51:21.410 align:middle line:84%
And the highpass filter
is eliminating those

00:51:21.410 --> 00:51:24.650 align:middle line:84%
and just preserving the
parts that vary very rapidly

00:51:24.650 --> 00:51:26.070 align:middle line:90%
as a function of space.

00:51:26.070 --> 00:51:30.230 align:middle line:90%


00:51:30.230 --> 00:51:32.530 align:middle line:90%
So images can be filtered.

00:51:32.530 --> 00:51:34.530 align:middle line:90%
So here are some examples.

00:51:34.530 --> 00:51:38.855 align:middle line:84%
Here's another face image with
the highpass filtered version

00:51:38.855 --> 00:51:40.230 align:middle line:84%
and the low
passfiltered version.

00:51:40.230 --> 00:51:44.810 align:middle line:84%
Again, the lowpass filtered
versions just look blurry.

00:51:44.810 --> 00:51:47.170 align:middle line:84%
Here's another image
with the low frequency

00:51:47.170 --> 00:51:51.610 align:middle line:84%
component and the high
frequency component.

00:51:51.610 --> 00:51:54.970 align:middle line:84%
And this is an image
that is built up

00:51:54.970 --> 00:51:58.610 align:middle line:84%
from a lowpass component, a
bandpass component-- that's

00:51:58.610 --> 00:52:02.690 align:middle line:84%
number 1-- and a high pass
component-- that's number 2.

00:52:02.690 --> 00:52:04.730 align:middle line:84%
And you get something
that looks more

00:52:04.730 --> 00:52:07.170 align:middle line:90%
like a full resolution image.

00:52:07.170 --> 00:52:10.770 align:middle line:84%
Here's another example of a
photograph of flowers that's

00:52:10.770 --> 00:52:14.530 align:middle line:84%
been decomposed into a
lowpass, bandpass, and highpass

00:52:14.530 --> 00:52:15.890 align:middle line:90%
components.

00:52:15.890 --> 00:52:19.090 align:middle line:84%
So a lot of these
same concepts that we

00:52:19.090 --> 00:52:21.490 align:middle line:84%
talked about when we
were talking about sound

00:52:21.490 --> 00:52:24.130 align:middle line:90%
can also be applied to images.

00:52:24.130 --> 00:52:27.930 align:middle line:84%
But now, we're dealing with
spatial frequency instead

00:52:27.930 --> 00:52:31.577 align:middle line:84%
of audio frequency, where
things are varying over time.

00:52:31.577 --> 00:52:33.410 align:middle line:84%
And it's two-dimensional,
which always makes

00:52:33.410 --> 00:52:35.690 align:middle line:90%
everything more confusing.

00:52:35.690 --> 00:52:36.390 align:middle line:90%
All right.

00:52:36.390 --> 00:52:38.630 align:middle line:90%
So this is math essentially.

00:52:38.630 --> 00:52:41.130 align:middle line:90%
So we've got signals.

00:52:41.130 --> 00:52:43.970 align:middle line:84%
The Fourier transform lets us
decompose them into frequencies.

00:52:43.970 --> 00:52:45.370 align:middle line:90%
We can filter them.

00:52:45.370 --> 00:52:47.550 align:middle line:84%
So what's the
relevance for vision?

00:52:47.550 --> 00:52:51.810 align:middle line:84%
So the natural question
is, does the visual system

00:52:51.810 --> 00:52:54.830 align:middle line:84%
decompose images into
spatial frequency components?

00:52:54.830 --> 00:52:58.490 align:middle line:84%
So we saw that the
cochlea decomposes sound,

00:52:58.490 --> 00:53:01.670 align:middle line:84%
to some extent, into audio
frequency components.

00:53:01.670 --> 00:53:04.630 align:middle line:84%
Maybe the visual system
does something similar.

00:53:04.630 --> 00:53:07.690 align:middle line:90%


00:53:07.690 --> 00:53:10.690 align:middle line:84%
So to look at this,
we are going to get

00:53:10.690 --> 00:53:17.330 align:middle line:84%
into the business of measuring
contrast detection thresholds.

00:53:17.330 --> 00:53:19.630 align:middle line:84%
So for that, we have
to define contrast.

00:53:19.630 --> 00:53:25.250 align:middle line:84%
So intuitively, contrast is
the difference in intensity

00:53:25.250 --> 00:53:27.710 align:middle line:90%
across some points in space.

00:53:27.710 --> 00:53:33.050 align:middle line:84%
So if we have a sinusoidal
grating where the luminance is

00:53:33.050 --> 00:53:36.850 align:middle line:84%
varying spatially,
sinusoidally, there

00:53:36.850 --> 00:53:42.310 align:middle line:84%
will be a minimum luminance
and a maximum luminance.

00:53:42.310 --> 00:53:44.330 align:middle line:84%
And the contrast
of the grating is

00:53:44.330 --> 00:53:47.730 align:middle line:84%
defined by the difference
between Lmax and Lmin

00:53:47.730 --> 00:53:49.690 align:middle line:90%
divided by the sum.

00:53:49.690 --> 00:53:53.830 align:middle line:84%
And so, by definition, the upper
limit of the contrast can be 1.

00:53:53.830 --> 00:53:56.630 align:middle line:90%


00:53:56.630 --> 00:53:58.690 align:middle line:84%
So that's what we're
going to define.

00:53:58.690 --> 00:54:02.050 align:middle line:84%
And what we want to measure
is your contrast detection

00:54:02.050 --> 00:54:02.970 align:middle line:90%
threshold.

00:54:02.970 --> 00:54:05.970 align:middle line:84%
So how much contrast
is needed for you

00:54:05.970 --> 00:54:09.610 align:middle line:84%
to be able to detect that
there is a grating there--

00:54:09.610 --> 00:54:11.790 align:middle line:84%
that is, that there's
variation in intensity?

00:54:11.790 --> 00:54:16.070 align:middle line:84%
And so it's kind of obvious
that, when the contrast is high,

00:54:16.070 --> 00:54:17.410 align:middle line:90%
it's going to be easy.

00:54:17.410 --> 00:54:19.210 align:middle line:84%
As the contrast
gets lower, it'll

00:54:19.210 --> 00:54:21.330 align:middle line:84%
start to get harder and
harder to tell that there

00:54:21.330 --> 00:54:22.750 align:middle line:90%
are ripples in the image.

00:54:22.750 --> 00:54:25.810 align:middle line:84%
And at some point, it
will become impossible.

00:54:25.810 --> 00:54:29.250 align:middle line:84%
So we'll measure the threshold
using the psychophysical methods

00:54:29.250 --> 00:54:32.250 align:middle line:84%
that you mastered
a few lectures ago.

00:54:32.250 --> 00:54:33.250 align:middle line:90%
Yeah?

00:54:33.250 --> 00:54:35.450 align:middle line:84%
STUDENT: Does the
number of bands

00:54:35.450 --> 00:54:37.537 align:middle line:90%
matter in detecting contrast?

00:54:37.537 --> 00:54:39.370 align:middle line:84%
JOSH MCDERMOTT: That
is one of the questions

00:54:39.370 --> 00:54:40.630 align:middle line:90%
we are about to answer.

00:54:40.630 --> 00:54:42.150 align:middle line:90%
Yes, it's a great question.

00:54:42.150 --> 00:54:45.850 align:middle line:90%


00:54:45.850 --> 00:54:48.250 align:middle line:84%
So we're going to do
an experiment where

00:54:48.250 --> 00:54:51.050 align:middle line:84%
we will ask, what is the
smallest amount of contrast

00:54:51.050 --> 00:54:52.030 align:middle line:90%
that is visible?

00:54:52.030 --> 00:54:55.850 align:middle line:84%
So these are gratings that
vary in their contrast.

00:54:55.850 --> 00:54:57.670 align:middle line:90%
And so we measure the threshold.

00:54:57.670 --> 00:55:01.170 align:middle line:84%
And then typically, in
this particular subfield,

00:55:01.170 --> 00:55:04.490 align:middle line:84%
we deal with contrast
sensitivity rather than

00:55:04.490 --> 00:55:06.290 align:middle line:90%
contrast threshold.

00:55:06.290 --> 00:55:07.630 align:middle line:90%
I apologize for the typo here.

00:55:07.630 --> 00:55:10.490 align:middle line:84%
So sensitivity is just the
reciprocal of threshold.

00:55:10.490 --> 00:55:12.170 align:middle line:84%
So in general, if
you're more sensitive,

00:55:12.170 --> 00:55:15.450 align:middle line:84%
that means your
threshold is lower.

00:55:15.450 --> 00:55:18.490 align:middle line:84%
So the question was
posed, does the threshold

00:55:18.490 --> 00:55:20.770 align:middle line:90%
depend on spatial frequency?

00:55:20.770 --> 00:55:24.450 align:middle line:84%
And so this is an image
that answers that question.

00:55:24.450 --> 00:55:29.010 align:middle line:84%
So this is an image that
varies in spatial frequency

00:55:29.010 --> 00:55:34.650 align:middle line:84%
from very low on the left
to very high on the right.

00:55:34.650 --> 00:55:38.690 align:middle line:84%
And it varies in contrast, going
from high contrast at the bottom

00:55:38.690 --> 00:55:42.980 align:middle line:90%
up to low contrast at the top.

00:55:42.980 --> 00:55:47.090 align:middle line:84%
And what you should be able
to see by looking at this

00:55:47.090 --> 00:55:49.930 align:middle line:84%
is that your contrast
sensitivity is not

00:55:49.930 --> 00:55:52.230 align:middle line:84%
uniform across
spatial frequency.

00:55:52.230 --> 00:55:56.270 align:middle line:84%
Rather, it's best for
medium spatial frequencies

00:55:56.270 --> 00:55:59.290 align:middle line:84%
and is worse when the spatial
frequencies get too low

00:55:59.290 --> 00:56:01.010 align:middle line:90%
or get too high.

00:56:01.010 --> 00:56:03.910 align:middle line:84%
Everybody see of
inverted U shape?

00:56:03.910 --> 00:56:05.810 align:middle line:90%
All right.

00:56:05.810 --> 00:56:09.650 align:middle line:84%
So that is what is known as the
contrast sensitivity function.

00:56:09.650 --> 00:56:11.490 align:middle line:84%
So the contrast
sensitivity function

00:56:11.490 --> 00:56:18.290 align:middle line:84%
is a function that plots
contrast sensitivity

00:56:18.290 --> 00:56:20.490 align:middle line:84%
as a function of
spatial frequency.

00:56:20.490 --> 00:56:25.950 align:middle line:84%
So remember, sensitivity
is 1 over the threshold.

00:56:25.950 --> 00:56:29.250 align:middle line:84%
So when the number is high, that
means your threshold is low.

00:56:29.250 --> 00:56:31.410 align:middle line:84%
And you can see that your
sensitivity is highest

00:56:31.410 --> 00:56:33.490 align:middle line:84%
at these medium
spatial frequencies,

00:56:33.490 --> 00:56:35.410 align:middle line:84%
like three or four
cycles per degree,

00:56:35.410 --> 00:56:38.250 align:middle line:84%
and then gets lower if the
spatial frequency gets lower

00:56:38.250 --> 00:56:40.050 align:middle line:90%
and higher if it gets higher.

00:56:40.050 --> 00:56:42.850 align:middle line:84%
And that corresponds to
what you saw in that image

00:56:42.850 --> 00:56:45.170 align:middle line:90%
that we just demoed.

00:56:45.170 --> 00:56:46.690 align:middle line:84%
And so the
consequence of that is

00:56:46.690 --> 00:56:50.770 align:middle line:84%
that you can see the image
variation in this region.

00:56:50.770 --> 00:56:54.490 align:middle line:84%
And even though there is
physical luminance variation up

00:56:54.490 --> 00:56:58.890 align:middle line:90%
here, that is invisible to you.

00:56:58.890 --> 00:57:03.570 align:middle line:84%
So this is just a property
of your visual system.

00:57:03.570 --> 00:57:07.610 align:middle line:84%
But what about our
original question

00:57:07.610 --> 00:57:11.210 align:middle line:84%
of whether the visual
system decomposes images

00:57:11.210 --> 00:57:13.430 align:middle line:84%
into different spatial
frequency components?

00:57:13.430 --> 00:57:14.930 align:middle line:84%
Are there frequency
channels, kind

00:57:14.930 --> 00:57:19.010 align:middle line:84%
of like we see in
the auditory system?

00:57:19.010 --> 00:57:19.510 align:middle line:90%
All right.

00:57:19.510 --> 00:57:20.970 align:middle line:84%
And so to get at
this, we're going

00:57:20.970 --> 00:57:25.210 align:middle line:84%
to use a classic tool in
the perceptual scientist

00:57:25.210 --> 00:57:27.370 align:middle line:90%
toolbox, which is adaptation.

00:57:27.370 --> 00:57:31.250 align:middle line:84%
And so what we're going
to do is adapt ourselves

00:57:31.250 --> 00:57:33.230 align:middle line:90%
to a single spatial frequency.

00:57:33.230 --> 00:57:36.050 align:middle line:90%


00:57:36.050 --> 00:57:38.210 align:middle line:84%
So we're going to stare
at a sine wave grating

00:57:38.210 --> 00:57:39.230 align:middle line:90%
for about a minute.

00:57:39.230 --> 00:57:41.930 align:middle line:90%
That's usually the magic number.

00:57:41.930 --> 00:57:45.490 align:middle line:84%
And there are naively
two hypotheses.

00:57:45.490 --> 00:57:47.850 align:middle line:84%
One hypothesis is
that the visual system

00:57:47.850 --> 00:57:51.810 align:middle line:84%
doesn't have these spatial
frequency channels.

00:57:51.810 --> 00:57:55.690 align:middle line:84%
And that would predict that, if
you're adapting to a grating,

00:57:55.690 --> 00:57:58.750 align:middle line:84%
you might just get a general
decrease in sensitivity.

00:57:58.750 --> 00:58:02.250 align:middle line:84%
So it might get harder to
see contrast irrespective

00:58:02.250 --> 00:58:04.210 align:middle line:90%
of the spatial frequency.

00:58:04.210 --> 00:58:07.330 align:middle line:84%
The other possibility is that,
if your visual system does

00:58:07.330 --> 00:58:09.130 align:middle line:84%
contain these
different channels that

00:58:09.130 --> 00:58:11.990 align:middle line:84%
are specific to particular
ranges of spatial frequencies,

00:58:11.990 --> 00:58:16.050 align:middle line:84%
that if you adapt to one, you
will decrease the responsiveness

00:58:16.050 --> 00:58:18.850 align:middle line:84%
in that one channel, kind
of like what we think

00:58:18.850 --> 00:58:20.890 align:middle line:84%
happens when you adapt
to an orientation that

00:58:20.890 --> 00:58:24.850 align:middle line:90%
causes the tilt aftereffect.

00:58:24.850 --> 00:58:27.010 align:middle line:84%
And that would have the
consequence then-- so if we

00:58:27.010 --> 00:58:30.930 align:middle line:84%
adapt ourselves and then
measure contrast sensitivity,

00:58:30.930 --> 00:58:33.010 align:middle line:84%
we should see a
localized decrease

00:58:33.010 --> 00:58:36.410 align:middle line:84%
in contrast sensitivity
at the adapting frequency

00:58:36.410 --> 00:58:38.510 align:middle line:90%
rather than a global decrease.

00:58:38.510 --> 00:58:39.730 align:middle line:90%
So let's try it.

00:58:39.730 --> 00:58:42.770 align:middle line:90%
So what I want you to do--

00:58:42.770 --> 00:58:45.552 align:middle line:84%
so first, just glance
at B. So the image on B

00:58:45.552 --> 00:58:48.010 align:middle line:84%
is the one that we're going to
use to measure your contrast

00:58:48.010 --> 00:58:50.090 align:middle line:90%
sensitivity function.

00:58:50.090 --> 00:58:54.230 align:middle line:84%
Now, let me get
out my stopwatch.

00:58:54.230 --> 00:58:56.570 align:middle line:84%
I want you to adapt
your visual system

00:58:56.570 --> 00:59:01.170 align:middle line:90%
by staring at the red circle.

00:59:01.170 --> 00:59:05.250 align:middle line:84%
And so again, look
around in the red circle,

00:59:05.250 --> 00:59:07.550 align:middle line:84%
because we don't want to
adapt our photoreceptors.

00:59:07.550 --> 00:59:10.830 align:middle line:84%
We're trying to adapt
spatial frequency channels.

00:59:10.830 --> 00:59:13.687 align:middle line:84%
So just look around
at the red circle.

00:59:13.687 --> 00:59:15.270 align:middle line:84%
You can think about
whatever you want.

00:59:15.270 --> 00:59:17.050 align:middle line:84%
Just keep your eyes
in the red circle.

00:59:17.050 --> 00:59:19.810 align:middle line:90%


00:59:19.810 --> 00:59:25.940 align:middle line:84%
And eventually, we're
going to then look over

00:59:25.940 --> 00:59:27.420 align:middle line:90%
at that other image.

00:59:27.420 --> 00:59:30.660 align:middle line:84%
And the two possibilities that
we're going to try to evaluate

00:59:30.660 --> 00:59:34.980 align:middle line:84%
is whether the overall the
profile of your sensitivity

00:59:34.980 --> 00:59:35.740 align:middle line:90%
shifts down.

00:59:35.740 --> 00:59:36.760 align:middle line:90%
Again, don't look now.

00:59:36.760 --> 00:59:38.620 align:middle line:84%
Just keep looking at
the red circle, OK?

00:59:38.620 --> 00:59:41.460 align:middle line:84%
We're going to ask ourselves
whether the overall sensitivity

00:59:41.460 --> 00:59:44.380 align:middle line:84%
drops or whether there's
a little bite taken out

00:59:44.380 --> 00:59:46.420 align:middle line:84%
of the contrast
sensitivity function

00:59:46.420 --> 00:59:51.180 align:middle line:84%
around the adaptive
spatial frequency.

00:59:51.180 --> 00:59:51.680 align:middle line:90%
All right.

00:59:51.680 --> 00:59:53.722 align:middle line:84%
We're going to do this
for about 15 more seconds.

00:59:53.722 --> 00:59:54.320 align:middle line:90%
Hang in there.

00:59:54.320 --> 00:59:56.100 align:middle line:84%
Just keep looking
at that red circle.

00:59:56.100 --> 00:59:58.728 align:middle line:90%


00:59:58.728 --> 01:00:03.500 align:middle line:90%
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

01:00:03.500 --> 01:00:04.000 align:middle line:90%
All right.

01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:07.540 align:middle line:84%
Look over at your contrast
sensitivity function.

01:00:07.540 --> 01:00:10.420 align:middle line:84%
And what you should
notice is that there's now

01:00:10.420 --> 01:00:13.380 align:middle line:84%
this little bite
taken out of the area

01:00:13.380 --> 01:00:15.440 align:middle line:90%
around the adaptive frequency.

01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:17.220 align:middle line:90%
Is that what everybody sees?

01:00:17.220 --> 01:00:19.740 align:middle line:84%
Raise your hand if
that's what you see.

01:00:19.740 --> 01:00:21.280 align:middle line:90%
Most of you.

01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:22.460 align:middle line:90%
Not everybody.

01:00:22.460 --> 01:00:24.460 align:middle line:90%
Yeah, OK.

01:00:24.460 --> 01:00:26.840 align:middle line:84%
So we may not have adapted
long enough for everyone.

01:00:26.840 --> 01:00:29.940 align:middle line:84%
But that's the typically
experienced result,

01:00:29.940 --> 01:00:36.180 align:middle line:84%
that you should have seen a
profile of visibility that

01:00:36.180 --> 01:00:39.380 align:middle line:84%
looks more like this, rather
than the upside down U shape

01:00:39.380 --> 01:00:40.720 align:middle line:90%
that you typically see.

01:00:40.720 --> 01:00:44.320 align:middle line:90%


01:00:44.320 --> 01:00:47.420 align:middle line:84%
So this is the
result. And the way

01:00:47.420 --> 01:00:50.540 align:middle line:84%
that you would do this
experiment in the lab

01:00:50.540 --> 01:00:52.760 align:middle line:84%
is-- it's a bit of
a tedious experiment

01:00:52.760 --> 01:00:55.340 align:middle line:84%
because you've got to measure
detection thresholds at all

01:00:55.340 --> 01:00:56.840 align:middle line:84%
these different
spatial frequencies.

01:00:56.840 --> 01:01:00.220 align:middle line:84%
And you'll want to measure
that under normal conditions,

01:01:00.220 --> 01:01:02.560 align:middle line:84%
and then under conditions
where you adapt people.

01:01:02.560 --> 01:01:05.820 align:middle line:84%
And so to measure
this with adaptation,

01:01:05.820 --> 01:01:07.980 align:middle line:84%
what you'd have to
do is force people

01:01:07.980 --> 01:01:09.660 align:middle line:84%
to look at the
adapting stimulus,

01:01:09.660 --> 01:01:13.020 align:middle line:84%
and then periodically make
them do a detection trial,

01:01:13.020 --> 01:01:15.640 align:middle line:84%
adapt them some more, have them
do some more detection trials.

01:01:15.640 --> 01:01:18.960 align:middle line:84%
You have to keep them adapted in
order to do these measurements.

01:01:18.960 --> 01:01:20.520 align:middle line:90%
So it's a long experiment.

01:01:20.520 --> 01:01:23.620 align:middle line:84%
But the outcome of that would be
a contrast sensitivity function

01:01:23.620 --> 01:01:25.540 align:middle line:84%
that looks like this,
where sensitivity

01:01:25.540 --> 01:01:30.200 align:middle line:84%
is reduced in a local region of
the spatial frequency spectrum.

01:01:30.200 --> 01:01:33.760 align:middle line:90%


01:01:33.760 --> 01:01:36.740 align:middle line:84%
So this suggests that this
thing that we measure,

01:01:36.740 --> 01:01:39.260 align:middle line:84%
that's called the contrast
sensitivity function,

01:01:39.260 --> 01:01:41.780 align:middle line:84%
represents the envelope
of a whole bunch

01:01:41.780 --> 01:01:46.480 align:middle line:84%
of different channels rather
than a single mechanism,

01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:48.180 align:middle line:90%
a single receptive field.

01:01:48.180 --> 01:01:51.620 align:middle line:84%
Now, this doesn't tell us
where these channels might

01:01:51.620 --> 01:01:53.740 align:middle line:90%
originate in the visual system.

01:01:53.740 --> 01:01:57.140 align:middle line:84%
And that's a question
that we can ask.

01:01:57.140 --> 01:02:01.740 align:middle line:84%
So one possibility is that
these spatial frequency channels

01:02:01.740 --> 01:02:03.660 align:middle line:84%
are actually due to
center-surround receptive

01:02:03.660 --> 01:02:07.100 align:middle line:84%
fields, like potentially
in the retina or the LGN.

01:02:07.100 --> 01:02:09.420 align:middle line:84%
And so the idea
here is that there's

01:02:09.420 --> 01:02:12.760 align:middle line:84%
a center-surround receptive
field, shown here.

01:02:12.760 --> 01:02:16.520 align:middle line:84%
And it's like a good match to
a particular spatial frequency,

01:02:16.520 --> 01:02:18.980 align:middle line:84%
where the center of
the receptive field

01:02:18.980 --> 01:02:21.600 align:middle line:84%
aligns with the peak
of a sine wave grating.

01:02:21.600 --> 01:02:24.280 align:middle line:84%
And then the surround
aligns with the troughs,

01:02:24.280 --> 01:02:27.100 align:middle line:84%
whereas if the spatial
frequency is lower or higher,

01:02:27.100 --> 01:02:29.220 align:middle line:84%
it's a poor match to
the receptive field.

01:02:29.220 --> 01:02:31.340 align:middle line:90%
And so you get a lower response.

01:02:31.340 --> 01:02:34.340 align:middle line:84%
So this is just the same
linear filter responses

01:02:34.340 --> 01:02:35.540 align:middle line:90%
that we've seen.

01:02:35.540 --> 01:02:38.100 align:middle line:84%
So the point is that
you could potentially

01:02:38.100 --> 01:02:41.180 align:middle line:84%
explain this with these
center-surround receptive

01:02:41.180 --> 01:02:41.800 align:middle line:90%
fields.

01:02:41.800 --> 01:02:43.940 align:middle line:84%
So does anybody
have an idea for how

01:02:43.940 --> 01:02:49.340 align:middle line:84%
we could test that theory of
spatial frequency channels?

01:02:49.340 --> 01:02:54.140 align:middle line:84%
How could how could we test
whether your spatial frequency

01:02:54.140 --> 01:02:56.340 align:middle line:84%
selectivity is due to
center-surround receptive

01:02:56.340 --> 01:02:56.920 align:middle line:90%
fields?

01:02:56.920 --> 01:03:13.220 align:middle line:90%


01:03:13.220 --> 01:03:16.220 align:middle line:90%
OK, I have an idea, actually.

01:03:16.220 --> 01:03:22.300 align:middle line:84%
What if we adapt to a
horizontal orientation

01:03:22.300 --> 01:03:24.860 align:middle line:84%
of the same spatial
frequency, and then

01:03:24.860 --> 01:03:28.540 align:middle line:84%
measure contrast sensitivity
with a vertical orientation?

01:03:28.540 --> 01:03:32.860 align:middle line:84%
So if the adaptation
is occurring

01:03:32.860 --> 01:03:35.980 align:middle line:84%
in a center-surround
receptive field,

01:03:35.980 --> 01:03:40.600 align:middle line:84%
then, if you adapt to this,
it should transfer to this.

01:03:40.600 --> 01:03:47.740 align:middle line:90%


01:03:47.740 --> 01:03:48.600 align:middle line:90%
Let's try it.

01:03:48.600 --> 01:03:49.280 align:middle line:90%
All right.

01:03:49.280 --> 01:03:52.060 align:middle line:90%
So we're going to adapt.

01:03:52.060 --> 01:03:52.800 align:middle line:90%
Stare at this.

01:03:52.800 --> 01:03:54.300 align:middle line:84%
So the procedure
here is we're going

01:03:54.300 --> 01:03:58.140 align:middle line:84%
to stare at this red
circle for a minute.

01:03:58.140 --> 01:03:59.320 align:middle line:90%
So start staring.

01:03:59.320 --> 01:04:01.580 align:middle line:84%
And then we're going to
look up again and see

01:04:01.580 --> 01:04:03.513 align:middle line:90%
if it looks any different.

01:04:03.513 --> 01:04:05.680 align:middle line:84%
It's very important to have
your eyes open for this.

01:04:05.680 --> 01:04:09.620 align:middle line:84%
If your eyes are closed,
it will not work.

01:04:09.620 --> 01:04:13.780 align:middle line:84%
So stare at the red
circle down here.

01:04:13.780 --> 01:04:17.940 align:middle line:84%
Again, move your eyes
around within the red circle

01:04:17.940 --> 01:04:20.080 align:middle line:84%
to avoid getting
a big afterimage.

01:04:20.080 --> 01:04:25.140 align:middle line:90%


01:04:25.140 --> 01:04:28.280 align:middle line:84%
OK, we've got another
30 seconds to go.

01:04:28.280 --> 01:04:36.900 align:middle line:90%


01:04:36.900 --> 01:04:38.560 align:middle line:90%
All right, 20 more seconds.

01:04:38.560 --> 01:04:42.500 align:middle line:90%


01:04:42.500 --> 01:04:43.480 align:middle line:90%
Keep staring.

01:04:43.480 --> 01:04:47.340 align:middle line:90%


01:04:47.340 --> 01:04:50.460 align:middle line:90%
All right, 10 more seconds.

01:04:50.460 --> 01:04:53.780 align:middle line:90%
8, 7, 6, 5.

01:04:53.780 --> 01:04:57.320 align:middle line:90%
4, 3, 2 1.

01:04:57.320 --> 01:05:01.180 align:middle line:84%
Now, measure your contrast
sensitivity function.

01:05:01.180 --> 01:05:05.220 align:middle line:84%
how many people see the
bite taken out of it now?

01:05:05.220 --> 01:05:06.300 align:middle line:90%
Nobody?

01:05:06.300 --> 01:05:08.580 align:middle line:90%
OK.

01:05:08.580 --> 01:05:13.740 align:middle line:84%
So what we conclude from
this is that the effect

01:05:13.740 --> 01:05:18.220 align:middle line:84%
that we previously witnessed
is dependent on some kind

01:05:18.220 --> 01:05:20.740 align:middle line:90%
of orientation-tuned mechanism.

01:05:20.740 --> 01:05:24.580 align:middle line:84%
So it's not
occurring at the site

01:05:24.580 --> 01:05:26.480 align:middle line:84%
of center-surround
receptive fields.

01:05:26.480 --> 01:05:30.380 align:middle line:84%
So it's probably not in
the retina or the LGN.

01:05:30.380 --> 01:05:33.100 align:middle line:84%
So this suggests that the
adaptation effects are probably

01:05:33.100 --> 01:05:35.140 align:middle line:84%
mediated cortically
because that's where

01:05:35.140 --> 01:05:39.140 align:middle line:90%
orientation selectivity arises.

01:05:39.140 --> 01:05:43.180 align:middle line:84%
And so the idea here is that
these channels correspond

01:05:43.180 --> 01:05:49.800 align:middle line:84%
to neurons or groups of neurons
that have similar properties.

01:05:49.800 --> 01:05:54.420 align:middle line:84%
So we just measured all this
stuff with sine wave gratings.

01:05:54.420 --> 01:05:58.420 align:middle line:84%
But you can also find evidence
for spatial frequency-selective

01:05:58.420 --> 01:05:59.440 align:middle line:90%
channels with masking.

01:05:59.440 --> 01:06:01.900 align:middle line:84%
So that's how we really
investigate frequency

01:06:01.900 --> 01:06:03.713 align:middle line:90%
selectivity in hearing.

01:06:03.713 --> 01:06:05.380 align:middle line:84%
Remember, we talked
a lot about masking,

01:06:05.380 --> 01:06:07.213 align:middle line:84%
and their ability to
detect a tone in noise,

01:06:07.213 --> 01:06:09.380 align:middle line:84%
and how that depended on
the bandwidth of the noise,

01:06:09.380 --> 01:06:10.240 align:middle line:90%
and stuff like that.

01:06:10.240 --> 01:06:13.600 align:middle line:84%
So this is the same idea,
but just applied division.

01:06:13.600 --> 01:06:15.780 align:middle line:84%
And so what you're
seeing here are

01:06:15.780 --> 01:06:19.860 align:middle line:84%
letters that are
superimposed on noise

01:06:19.860 --> 01:06:23.180 align:middle line:84%
that has been filtered into
different spatial frequency

01:06:23.180 --> 01:06:25.620 align:middle line:84%
ranges, from very low
spatial frequencies up

01:06:25.620 --> 01:06:28.480 align:middle line:84%
at the top to high spatial
frequencies down at the bottom.

01:06:28.480 --> 01:06:31.040 align:middle line:84%
And so the letters
are exactly the same.

01:06:31.040 --> 01:06:34.380 align:middle line:84%
The contrast of the noise is the
same across all of the examples.

01:06:34.380 --> 01:06:38.100 align:middle line:84%
All that varies is the spatial
frequency content of the noise.

01:06:38.100 --> 01:06:40.980 align:middle line:84%
And what you are supposed
to be able to see

01:06:40.980 --> 01:06:45.100 align:middle line:84%
is that it's pretty easy to
read the letters at the bottom

01:06:45.100 --> 01:06:46.360 align:middle line:90%
and also at the very top.

01:06:46.360 --> 01:06:49.980 align:middle line:84%
But then there's this range
in the middle where it gets

01:06:49.980 --> 01:06:52.120 align:middle line:90%
hard to detect the letters.

01:06:52.120 --> 01:06:54.740 align:middle line:90%
So this is evidence that--

01:06:54.740 --> 01:06:56.380 align:middle line:84%
again, more evidence
that there is

01:06:56.380 --> 01:06:58.580 align:middle line:84%
a spatial
frequency-selective channel

01:06:58.580 --> 01:07:03.000 align:middle line:84%
that limits, in this case, your
ability to detect the letters.

01:07:03.000 --> 01:07:05.890 align:middle line:90%


01:07:05.890 --> 01:07:12.460 align:middle line:84%
And you can also see this result
in a similar kind of display

01:07:12.460 --> 01:07:14.980 align:middle line:84%
that lets you see the
contrast sensitivity

01:07:14.980 --> 01:07:16.660 align:middle line:90%
function, like structure.

01:07:16.660 --> 01:07:18.740 align:middle line:84%
So now, we have
these different rows

01:07:18.740 --> 01:07:22.700 align:middle line:84%
of letters that are
decreasing in contrast.

01:07:22.700 --> 01:07:26.780 align:middle line:84%
And the different
columns here correspond

01:07:26.780 --> 01:07:28.967 align:middle line:84%
to different spatial
frequencies of noise.

01:07:28.967 --> 01:07:31.300 align:middle line:84%
And so the point is that your
ability to see the letters

01:07:31.300 --> 01:07:34.940 align:middle line:84%
extends further
down on the far left

01:07:34.940 --> 01:07:37.940 align:middle line:84%
and the far right,
when you're dealing

01:07:37.940 --> 01:07:41.060 align:middle line:84%
with low spatial frequency noise
or high spatial frequency noise,

01:07:41.060 --> 01:07:45.240 align:middle line:84%
and is impaired most by these
middle spatial frequencies.

01:07:45.240 --> 01:07:48.140 align:middle line:90%


01:07:48.140 --> 01:07:49.760 align:middle line:84%
All right, any
questions about that?

01:07:49.760 --> 01:08:00.500 align:middle line:90%


01:08:00.500 --> 01:08:05.320 align:middle line:84%
So some nomenclature in terms of
talking about spatial frequency

01:08:05.320 --> 01:08:05.820 align:middle line:90%
channels--

01:08:05.820 --> 01:08:07.737 align:middle line:84%
I mean, a lot of this
will be fairly familiar,

01:08:07.737 --> 01:08:11.740 align:middle line:84%
just from the fact that we
covered analogous concepts

01:08:11.740 --> 01:08:13.540 align:middle line:90%
when we talked about audition.

01:08:13.540 --> 01:08:15.620 align:middle line:84%
But filters are
usually characterized

01:08:15.620 --> 01:08:17.180 align:middle line:90%
in terms of their bandwidth.

01:08:17.180 --> 01:08:19.740 align:middle line:84%
So usually, the
bandwidth is defined

01:08:19.740 --> 01:08:23.819 align:middle line:84%
as the ratio of the frequencies
at which the maximum contrast

01:08:23.819 --> 01:08:25.812 align:middle line:90%
sensitivity is obtained--

01:08:25.812 --> 01:08:28.020 align:middle line:84%
sorry, at which half the
maximum contrast sensitivity

01:08:28.020 --> 01:08:28.600 align:middle line:90%
is attained.

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Usually, it's
measured in octaves.

01:08:31.359 --> 01:08:32.859 align:middle line:84%
So remember, an
octave is a doubling

01:08:32.859 --> 01:08:36.100 align:middle line:90%
in frequency-- so 1 to 2 to 4.

01:08:36.100 --> 01:08:39.740 align:middle line:84%
So here's two examples of
spatial frequency channels.

01:08:39.740 --> 01:08:43.100 align:middle line:84%
And you can see this one
here has got peak sensitivity

01:08:43.100 --> 01:08:48.020 align:middle line:84%
at 2.3 cycles per degree and a
bandwidth of about 2 octaves.

01:08:48.020 --> 01:08:50.319 align:middle line:84%
This one's got a
bandwidth of 1.3 octaves.

01:08:50.319 --> 01:08:53.060 align:middle line:84%
In general, the spatial
frequency channels

01:08:53.060 --> 01:08:54.580 align:middle line:84%
that you see in
the visual system

01:08:54.580 --> 01:08:58.920 align:middle line:84%
are wider than the
filters of the cochlea.

01:08:58.920 --> 01:09:04.859 align:middle line:84%
So the cochlea, roughly
speaking, filters

01:09:04.859 --> 01:09:07.180 align:middle line:84%
are maybe a third of an
octave, depending on where

01:09:07.180 --> 01:09:10.387 align:middle line:90%
you are on the cochlea.

01:09:10.387 --> 01:09:12.220 align:middle line:84%
And the spatial frequency
channels in vision

01:09:12.220 --> 01:09:14.300 align:middle line:84%
are typically in
excess of an octave.

01:09:14.300 --> 01:09:20.180 align:middle line:84%
So the frequency resolution
is not nearly as tight.

01:09:20.180 --> 01:09:25.020 align:middle line:90%
But it's nonetheless there.

01:09:25.020 --> 01:09:26.753 align:middle line:84%
So we just did that
experiment that

01:09:26.753 --> 01:09:28.420 align:middle line:84%
suggests that the
frequency channels are

01:09:28.420 --> 01:09:29.779 align:middle line:90%
cortically mediated.

01:09:29.779 --> 01:09:32.460 align:middle line:84%
And there's now quite a
lot of neurophysiology

01:09:32.460 --> 01:09:33.520 align:middle line:90%
that supports that.

01:09:33.520 --> 01:09:37.260 align:middle line:84%
So Rus de Valois was
the neurophysiologist

01:09:37.260 --> 01:09:40.260 align:middle line:84%
who did a lot of work
in this particular area.

01:09:40.260 --> 01:09:43.020 align:middle line:84%
And these are contrast
sensitivity functions

01:09:43.020 --> 01:09:48.580 align:middle line:84%
of individual neurons,
so single neurons in V1.

01:09:48.580 --> 01:09:52.340 align:middle line:84%
And you can see that the
best spatial frequency

01:09:52.340 --> 01:09:55.592 align:middle line:84%
of the different neurons
varies depending on which

01:09:55.592 --> 01:09:56.800 align:middle line:90%
neuron you're recording from.

01:09:56.800 --> 01:09:59.860 align:middle line:84%
Of course, the overall contrast
sensitivity also varies.

01:09:59.860 --> 01:10:04.950 align:middle line:84%
But you can think of each neuron
as mediating a spatial frequency

01:10:04.950 --> 01:10:07.950 align:middle line:90%
channel.

01:10:07.950 --> 01:10:09.790 align:middle line:84%
So contrast
sensitivity functions

01:10:09.790 --> 01:10:13.610 align:middle line:84%
have been measured in lots
of people at lots of ages.

01:10:13.610 --> 01:10:16.630 align:middle line:90%


01:10:16.630 --> 01:10:19.270 align:middle line:84%
Contrast sensitivity
improves pretty dramatically

01:10:19.270 --> 01:10:21.190 align:middle line:84%
over the first few months
of life, especially

01:10:21.190 --> 01:10:22.610 align:middle line:90%
for high spatial frequencies.

01:10:22.610 --> 01:10:25.190 align:middle line:84%
So this is the contrast
sensitivity function

01:10:25.190 --> 01:10:28.190 align:middle line:84%
displayed for an
adult at the top,

01:10:28.190 --> 01:10:31.670 align:middle line:84%
and then for different ages of
life, starting at four weeks.

01:10:31.670 --> 01:10:35.550 align:middle line:84%
And so you can see that, in
general, sensitivity improves.

01:10:35.550 --> 01:10:38.010 align:middle line:84%
But in particular, at these
high spatial frequencies,

01:10:38.010 --> 01:10:40.750 align:middle line:84%
you can see that a month-old
baby just can't really detect

01:10:40.750 --> 01:10:42.910 align:middle line:90%
this kind of stuff at all.

01:10:42.910 --> 01:10:48.657 align:middle line:84%
And as you mature, you become
able to see these higher

01:10:48.657 --> 01:10:49.490 align:middle line:90%
spatial frequencies.

01:10:49.490 --> 01:10:52.570 align:middle line:84%
So in general, baby
vision is fairly blurry.

01:10:52.570 --> 01:10:55.030 align:middle line:90%


01:10:55.030 --> 01:10:55.530 align:middle line:90%
All right.

01:10:55.530 --> 01:10:59.070 align:middle line:84%
Now, so the idea of these
spatial frequency channels

01:10:59.070 --> 01:11:02.670 align:middle line:84%
is that you get this image
that comes into the eye.

01:11:02.670 --> 01:11:05.110 align:middle line:84%
And then it gets
decomposed, to some extent,

01:11:05.110 --> 01:11:10.210 align:middle line:90%
into these frequency components.

01:11:10.210 --> 01:11:12.710 align:middle line:84%
However, there's lots
of reasons to think

01:11:12.710 --> 01:11:16.070 align:middle line:84%
that those different spatial
frequency channels don't

01:11:16.070 --> 01:11:20.330 align:middle line:84%
remain independent all the
way up to object recognition.

01:11:20.330 --> 01:11:23.390 align:middle line:84%
And this is a classic
illusion that provides

01:11:23.390 --> 01:11:24.730 align:middle line:90%
a demonstration of this.

01:11:24.730 --> 01:11:30.750 align:middle line:84%
So how many people
know who this is?

01:11:30.750 --> 01:11:31.370 align:middle line:90%
A few.

01:11:31.370 --> 01:11:32.310 align:middle line:90%
Yeah, OK.

01:11:32.310 --> 01:11:34.470 align:middle line:84%
How many people have
seen this before?

01:11:34.470 --> 01:11:35.810 align:middle line:90%
OK, no one's seen this before.

01:11:35.810 --> 01:11:37.150 align:middle line:90%
All right.

01:11:37.150 --> 01:11:42.830 align:middle line:84%
So this is a picture
of a famous person.

01:11:42.830 --> 01:11:44.470 align:middle line:90%
But it's very pixelated.

01:11:44.470 --> 01:11:47.490 align:middle line:84%
And that makes it
hard to recognize.

01:11:47.490 --> 01:11:49.870 align:middle line:84%
But if you squint
your eyes, that

01:11:49.870 --> 01:11:52.990 align:middle line:84%
has the effect of
blurring the image.

01:11:52.990 --> 01:11:57.550 align:middle line:84%
And the effect here that you're
supposed to note is that,

01:11:57.550 --> 01:12:01.110 align:middle line:84%
if you squint your
eyes or blur the image,

01:12:01.110 --> 01:12:03.730 align:middle line:84%
which is essentially
providing a lowpass filter--

01:12:03.730 --> 01:12:06.390 align:middle line:84%
so you're removing the high
spatial frequency components--

01:12:06.390 --> 01:12:08.710 align:middle line:84%
the image becomes
more recognizable.

01:12:08.710 --> 01:12:12.390 align:middle line:84%
And so the inference
that we make from this--

01:12:12.390 --> 01:12:15.190 align:middle line:84%
so what's happened here,
when the image is pixelated,

01:12:15.190 --> 01:12:17.710 align:middle line:84%
is that there are high spatial
frequency components that are

01:12:17.710 --> 01:12:21.730 align:middle line:90%
introduced that are incorrect.

01:12:21.730 --> 01:12:24.310 align:middle line:84%
Those are not the high
spatial frequency components

01:12:24.310 --> 01:12:26.630 align:middle line:84%
that were in this original
painting or photograph

01:12:26.630 --> 01:12:28.030 align:middle line:90%
of Abraham Lincoln.

01:12:28.030 --> 01:12:31.070 align:middle line:84%
They're just artifacts
of the pixelation.

01:12:31.070 --> 01:12:34.190 align:middle line:84%
And when you squint
your eyes, you

01:12:34.190 --> 01:12:36.870 align:middle line:84%
are filtering out some of
those high spatial frequency

01:12:36.870 --> 01:12:37.690 align:middle line:90%
components.

01:12:37.690 --> 01:12:41.510 align:middle line:84%
And the fact that that makes
the image more recognizable

01:12:41.510 --> 01:12:44.727 align:middle line:84%
is evidence that,
although we think early

01:12:44.727 --> 01:12:47.310 align:middle line:84%
in the visual system, the high
and the low spatial frequencies

01:12:47.310 --> 01:12:50.390 align:middle line:84%
are decomposed and representing
these different channels,

01:12:50.390 --> 01:12:55.110 align:middle line:84%
they then must interact in order
to mediate object recognition.

01:12:55.110 --> 01:12:58.470 align:middle line:84%
And in this case, the incorrect
high spatial frequencies

01:12:58.470 --> 01:13:00.470 align:middle line:84%
are interfering
with your ability

01:13:00.470 --> 01:13:05.510 align:middle line:84%
to extract information from
the low spatial frequencies.

01:13:05.510 --> 01:13:06.010 align:middle line:90%
All right.

01:13:06.010 --> 01:13:08.910 align:middle line:84%
So evidence that these
different spatial scales

01:13:08.910 --> 01:13:11.230 align:middle line:84%
don't remain independent
all the way up

01:13:11.230 --> 01:13:12.870 align:middle line:90%
through the visual system.

01:13:12.870 --> 01:13:15.810 align:middle line:90%
Any questions about that?

01:13:15.810 --> 01:13:20.790 align:middle line:90%


01:13:20.790 --> 01:13:21.990 align:middle line:90%
All right.

01:13:21.990 --> 01:13:25.070 align:middle line:84%
So just to summarize what
we talked about today,

01:13:25.070 --> 01:13:28.390 align:middle line:84%
key ideas are that
images can be decomposed

01:13:28.390 --> 01:13:29.610 align:middle line:90%
into spatial frequencies.

01:13:29.610 --> 01:13:33.630 align:middle line:90%
That's just a mathematical fact.

01:13:33.630 --> 01:13:37.310 align:middle line:84%
Evidence that there are multiple
spatial frequency channels

01:13:37.310 --> 01:13:40.450 align:middle line:84%
comes from experiments
on contrast adaptations.

01:13:40.450 --> 01:13:43.510 align:middle line:84%
So if you adapt to
a sine wave grating,

01:13:43.510 --> 01:13:45.930 align:middle line:84%
this results in focal
sensitivity decreases.

01:13:45.930 --> 01:13:49.710 align:middle line:84%
So specifically, you become less
sensitive to spatial frequencies

01:13:49.710 --> 01:13:53.430 align:middle line:84%
around that of the adapter
rather than just generally less

01:13:53.430 --> 01:13:54.510 align:middle line:90%
sensitive.

01:13:54.510 --> 01:13:57.390 align:middle line:84%
That adaptation is
orientation-specific,

01:13:57.390 --> 01:13:59.810 align:middle line:84%
which suggests it probably
happens cortically.

01:13:59.810 --> 01:14:02.162 align:middle line:90%


01:14:02.162 --> 01:14:03.870 align:middle line:84%
We think these spatial
frequency channels

01:14:03.870 --> 01:14:05.990 align:middle line:84%
are useful for encoding
different spatial scales

01:14:05.990 --> 01:14:08.030 align:middle line:90%
in images.

01:14:08.030 --> 01:14:10.310 align:middle line:84%
And so the neurons
that we see in V1

01:14:10.310 --> 01:14:12.110 align:middle line:84%
are tuned for both
orientation-- that's

01:14:12.110 --> 01:14:14.050 align:middle line:84%
what we talked about in
the previous lecture--

01:14:14.050 --> 01:14:15.790 align:middle line:90%
and spatial frequency.

01:14:15.790 --> 01:14:18.710 align:middle line:84%
And then we talked more broadly
about the contrast sensitivity

01:14:18.710 --> 01:14:23.190 align:middle line:84%
function as a thing that
you can measure, that is

01:14:23.190 --> 01:14:28.830 align:middle line:84%
what is used to actually see
these effects of adaptation.

01:14:28.830 --> 01:14:29.830 align:middle line:90%
All right.

01:14:29.830 --> 01:14:32.420 align:middle line:90%
That's all I've got for you.

01:14:32.420 --> 01:14:56.000 align:middle line:90%