hamkerlab / Larisch2021_PLOSComBio

Repository for the publication: Larisch, R., Gönner, L., Teichmann, M. & Hamker, F. H. (2021). Sensory coding and contrast invariance emerge from the control of plastic inhibition over emergent selectivity

Python scripts for the V1 simple cell model from Larisch,R., Gönner,L., Teichmann,M., Hamker, F.H. (2021)

Dependencies

• Python v3.6 (Python >v3.6 and Python v2.7 not tested)
• Numpy >= v1.11.0
• Matplotlib >= v1.5.1
• ANNarchy >= v4.6.8.1 (actual master release can be found here and an installation guide is provided in the documentation )

Structure

The V1_simpleCell directory contains the python script to learn the V1 layer 4 models on natural scenes.

Start the learning with:

python ann.py

or

python ann.py -j4

to use 4 CPU cores to speed up the calculation.

The analyzes_V1Simple directory contains all the experiments to evaluate the model. Before starting the evaluation, copy the weight matrices into the Input_network directory.

Start the complete evaluation with:

python start.py