The Mechanism of Orientation Detection Based on Dendritic Neuron

The research on orientation recognition of visual systems is of great significance to improve our understanding of biological vision and the human brain. However, the mechanism of orientation recognition in the visual system is still unknown. In this research, we propose a new mechanism to detect the orientation of the object. The orientation detection ganglion neuron is applied to infer the global detection according to the local information. This mechanism is simulated by a dendritic neuron model and a series of experiments are conducted to verify the effectiveness. The experimental results show the ability of this mechanism to detect the orientation of an object regardless of the size and position, which is consistent with most known physiological experimental results.