Model/Methods

We demonstrate the advantage of feature pooling over neurons with a simple linear example. An extreme form of feature sharing across visual neurons is when they all have exactly the same filter, but at different locations in the visual field. A more complicated population may consist of different cells that show some heterogeneity but are still very similar, for instance, by being of the same biological type. Finally, we explore populations of neurons that are mixed of two types with larger variation between cells of different types than between cells of the same type.

Simulated Neurons