主题：Auditory stream segregation and perceptual bistability

报告人：Professor John Rinzel, Center for Neural Science and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

时间：2018年12月14日（周五），13:00-14:00

地点：北京大学老化学楼东配楼101报告厅

摘要：

When experiencing an ambiguous sensory stimulus (e.g., the faces-vase image), subjects may report random alternations (time scale, seconds) between the possible interpretations. I will describe dynamical systems models for neuronal populations that compete for dominance through mutual inhibition, influenced by slow adaptation and noise. In highly idealized formulations network units are percept specific without direct representation of stimulus features.  Our behavioral experiments and modeling involve perception of ambiguous auditory stimuli.  The models incorporate feature specificity, tonotopically organized inputs and receptive fields, so that perceptual selectivity is emergent rather than built-in. Our model addresses the effects of selective attention, distractor and deviant sounds as well as the transient, so-called build-up, phase of sound source segregation as when entering a cocktail party.

邀请人：陶乐天 研究员