The functional architecture of the early vision and neurogeometric models

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author Alekseevsky, Dmitri V.
Spiro, Andrea
author_facet Alekseevsky, Dmitri V.
Spiro, Andrea
contents The initial sections of the paper give a concise presentation, specially designed for a mathematically oriented audience, of some of the most basic facts on the functional architecture of early vision. Such information is usually scattered in a variety of papers and books, which are not easily accessible by non-specialists. Our goal is thus to offer a handy and short introduction to this topics, which might be helpful for researchers willing to enter the area of the applications of modern Differential Geometry in studies on the visual systems, baptized neurogeometry by J. Petitot. We then offer a survey of three of the most important neurogeometric models: Petitot's contact model of the primary visual cortex, its extension to A. Sarti, G. Citti and J. Petitot's symplectic model, and P. C. Bressloff and J. D. Cowan's spherical model of hypercolumns. We finally discuss the main points of the so-called ``conformal model'' for hypercolumns (a model that was briefly presented in [D. V. Alekseevsky, Conformal model of hypercolumns in V1 cortex and the Moebius group, in ``Geometric science of information'', pp. 65--72, Springer, 2021] and given in detail in [D. V. Alekseevsky and A. Spiro, Conformal models for hypercolumns in the primary visual cortex V1, arXiv 2024]), which can be considered as a synthesis of the symplectic and the spherical models.
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Alekseevsky, Dmitri V.
Spiro, Andrea
Neurons and Cognition
Differential Geometry
92B99
The initial sections of the paper give a concise presentation, specially designed for a mathematically oriented audience, of some of the most basic facts on the functional architecture of early vision. Such information is usually scattered in a variety of papers and books, which are not easily accessible by non-specialists. Our goal is thus to offer a handy and short introduction to this topics, which might be helpful for researchers willing to enter the area of the applications of modern Differential Geometry in studies on the visual systems, baptized neurogeometry by J. Petitot. We then offer a survey of three of the most important neurogeometric models: Petitot's contact model of the primary visual cortex, its extension to A. Sarti, G. Citti and J. Petitot's symplectic model, and P. C. Bressloff and J. D. Cowan's spherical model of hypercolumns. We finally discuss the main points of the so-called ``conformal model'' for hypercolumns (a model that was briefly presented in [D. V. Alekseevsky, Conformal model of hypercolumns in V1 cortex and the Moebius group, in ``Geometric science of information'', pp. 65--72, Springer, 2021] and given in detail in [D. V. Alekseevsky and A. Spiro, Conformal models for hypercolumns in the primary visual cortex V1, arXiv 2024]), which can be considered as a synthesis of the symplectic and the spherical models.
title The functional architecture of the early vision and neurogeometric models
topic Neurons and Cognition
Differential Geometry
92B99
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10157