A computational model of the effect of short-term monocular deprivation on binocular rivalry in the context of amblyopia

  • Treatments for amblyopia focus on vision therapy and patching of one eye. Predicting the success of these methods remains difficult, however. Recent research has used binocular rivalry to monitor visual cortical plasticity during occlusion therapy, leading to a successful prediction of the recovery rate of the amblyopic eye. The underlying mechanisms and their relation to neural homeostatic plasticity are not known. Here we propose a spiking neural network to explain the effect of short-term monocular deprivation on binocular rivalry. The model reproduces perceptual switches as observed experimentally. When one eye is occluded, inhibitory plasticity changes the balance between the eyes and leads to longer dominance periods for the eye that has been deprived. The model suggests that homeostatic inhibitory plasticity is a critical component of the observed effects and might play an important role in the recovery from amblyopia.

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Author:Norman SeeligerORCiD, Jochen TrieschORCiD
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-729133
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.31.453675
Parent Title (English):bioRxiv
Document Type:Preprint
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2021/08/02
Date of first Publication:2021/08/02
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2023/03/17
Tag:Amblyopia; Binocular Rivalry; Neural Network; Plasticity
Issue:2021.07.31.453675
Page Number:12
HeBIS-PPN:506717143
Institutes:Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS)
Dewey Decimal Classification:0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY-NC - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International