Dynamic formation of self-organizing maps¶

Below, we provide the scripts used to generate the illustrations of the article “Dynamic formation of self-organizing maps”

• To generate the illustrations Fig1, 2 (a), (b), use the script wsom_fig1.py.
• To generate the illustrations Fig3 use the script wsom_fig3.py and distributions.py. If you want to see a video of the self-organization of the neural field on a ring distribution, you can use the script wsom_ring_animation.py
• To generate the illustrations Fig4 use the script wsom_fig4.py. If you want to generate a video, change the parameter generate_video to True in the script. Be aware that a huge bunch of images will be created. I then put them together to get a video.

Below are videos of the neural field self-organizing on the ring distribution and on the rotating bar experiment. On the video for the rotating bar, the stimulus is displayed in the middle. The prototypes are shown aligned on a circle, remember the units are connected on a ring.