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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

Developmental and evolutionary constraints on olfactory circuit selection.

Naoki Hiratani, Peter E Latham

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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2 authors.

Naoki HirataniGatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, London W1T 4JG, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-8568-2033
Peter E LathamGatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, London W1T 4JG, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8713-9328

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SignificanceIn this work, we explore the hypothesis that biological neural networks optimize their architecture, through evolution, for learning. We study early olfactory circuits of mammals and insects, which have relatively similar structure but a huge diversity in size. We approximate these circuits as three-layer networks and estimate, analytically, the scaling of the optimal hidden-layer size with input-layer size. We find that both longevity and information in the genome constrain the hidden-layer size, so a range of allometric scalings is possible. However, the experimentally observed allometric scalings in mammals and insects are consistent with biologically plausible values. This analysis should pave the way for a deeper understanding of both biological and artificial networks.

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InsectaLearningMammalsModels, NeurologicalOlfactory PathwaysAnimalsBiological EvolutionCell CountMushroom BodiesNeural Networks, ComputerNeuronsPiriform Cortexmodel selectionneural circuitolfactionstatistical learning theory

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PMID35263217
PMCPMC8931209

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