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Noise destroys feedback enhanced figure-ground segmentation but not feedforward figure-ground segmentation
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Figure-ground (FG) segmentation is the separation of visual information into background and foreground objects. In the visual cortex, FG responses are observed in the late stimulus response period, when neurons fire in tonic mode, and are accompanied by a switch in cortical state. When such a switch does not occur, FG segmentation fails. Currently, it is not known what happens in the brain on such occasions. A biologically plausible feedforward spiking neuron model was previously devised that performed FG segmentation successfully. After incorporating feedback the FG signal was enhanced, which was accompanied by a change in spiking regime. In a feedforward model neurons respond in a bursting mode whereas in the feedback model neurons fired in tonic mode. It is known that bursts can overcome noise, while tonic firing appears to be much more sensitive to noise. In the present study, we try to elucidate how the presence of noise can impair FG segmentation, and to what extent the feedforward and feedback pathways can overcome noise. We show that noise specifically destroys the feedback enhanced FG segmentation and leaves the feedforward FG segmentation largely intact. Our results predict that noise produces failure in FG perception.
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ROMEO VAL, August, ARALL, Marina, SUPÈR, Hendrik anne. Noise destroys feedback enhanced figure-ground segmentation but not feedforward figure-ground segmentation. _Frontiers in Physiology_. 2012. Vol. 3, núm. 274. [consulta: 24 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 1664-042X. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/176840]