Emergence of Attention within a Neural Population

Nicolas P. Rougier (1) , Julien Vitay (1)

1 CORTEX - Neuromimetic intelligence

We present a dynamic model of attention based on the Continuum Neural Field Theory that explains attention as being an emergent property of a neural population. This model is experimentally proved to be very robust and able to track one static or moving target in the presence of very strong noise or in the presence of a lot of distractors, even more salient than the target. This attentional property is not restricted to the visual case and can be considered as a generic attentional process of any spatio-temporal continuous input.

Mots clés: CNFT Dynamic Neural Fields Attention

Domaines: Réseau de neurones [cs.NE]; Neurosciences [q-bio.NC]

Nicolas P. Rougier, Julien Vitay. Emergence of Attention within a Neural Population. Neural Networks, 2005. ⟨inria-00000143⟩