Figure 1.
Model Behavior: Cholinergic Modulation Cause a Sharpening of Neural Tuning Curves. The network architecture consists of a recurrent network in which neurons receive feedforward input from the LGN and lateral input with excitation and inhibition (Mexican hat profile). Periodic boundary conditions (not shown) ensured a ring topology of the network. Tuning curve properties for the different concentration of ACh: Individual neuron tuning curves before and after applying ACh. The tuning curves are shown for neurons with a preferred orientation of zero after applying ACh.