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A Retino-Morphic Hardware System Simulating the Graded and Action Potentials in Retinal Neuronal Layers

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Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2016)

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We recently developed a retino-morphic hardware system operating at a frame interval of 5 ms, that was short enough for simulating the graded voltage responses of neurons in the retinal circuit in a quasi-continuous manner. In the present, we made a further progress, by implementing the Izhikevich model so that spatial spike distributions in a ganglion-cell layer can be simulated with millisecond-order timing precision. This system is useful for examining the retinal spike encoding of natural visual scenes.

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This research was partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 16K01354 to T.Y.

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Kudo, Y., Hayashida, Y., Ishida, R., Okuno, H., Yagi, T. (2016). A Retino-Morphic Hardware System Simulating the Graded and Action Potentials in Retinal Neuronal Layers. In: Hirose, A., Ozawa, S., Doya, K., Ikeda, K., Lee, M., Liu, D. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9948. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46672-9_37

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