ON TUNING AND AMPLIFICATION BY LATERAL INHIBITION*

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Lateral inhibition in a neural network generally attenuates the amplitudes of the responses to sinusoidal stimuli—both spatial and temporal. For an inhibitory influence with an abrupt onset and an exponential decay in time, and with a Gaussian distribution in space (the forms often assumed in theoretical calculations), the attenuation is greatest at low temporal and spatial frequencies. The attenuation diminishes with increasing frequencies until ultimately the amplitudes of inhibited responses become equal to, but never exceed, the amplitudes of the uninhibited.

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