@article{von-der-malsburg-1973, author = {von der Malsburg, Christoff}, day = {31}, issn = {0023-5946}, journal = {Kybernetik}, keywords = {self-organization, visual, visual-processing}, month = dec, number = {2}, pages = {85--100}, pmid = {4786750}, posted-at = {2013-01-14 10:28:03}, priority = {2}, title = {Self-organization of orientation sensitive cells in the striate cortex}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4786750}, volume = {14}, year = {1973} }
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The SOM has ancestors in von der Malsburg's "Self-Organization of Orientation Sensitive Cells in the Striate Cortex" and other early models of self-organization⇒
The SOM is an abstraction of biologically-plausible ANN.⇒
Von der Malsburg introduces a simple model of self-organization which explains the organization of direction-sensitive cells in the human visual cortex.⇒