92B20 Neural networks, artificial life and related topics [See also 68T05, 82C32, 94Cxx]
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The dissertation deals with the general problem of how the brain can establish correspondences between neural patterns stored in different cortical areas. Although an important capability in many cognitive areas like language understanding, abstract reasoning, or motor control, this thesis concentrates on invariant object recognition as application of correspondence finding. One part of the work presents a correspondence-based, neurally plausible system for face recognition. Other parts address the question of visual information routing over several stages by proposing optimal architectures for such routing ('switchyards') and deriving ontogenetic mechanisms for the growth of switchyards. Finally, the idea of multi-stage routing is united with the object recognition system introduced before, making suggestions of how the so far distinct feature-based and correspondence-based approaches to object recognition could be reconciled.