@inproceedings {2009,
	title = {The role of lateral inhibition in the sensory processing in a simulated spiking neural controller for a robot},
	booktitle = {Proc. 2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2009)},
	year = {2009},
	month = {03/2009},
	pages = {179{\textendash}183},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	address = {Nashville, TN},
	abstract = {Visual adaptation is the process that allows animals to be able to see over a wide range of light levels. This is achieved partially by lateral inhibition in the retina which compensates for low/high light levels. Neural controllers which cause robots to turn away from or towards light tend to work in a limited range of light conditions. In real environments, the light conditions can vary greatly reducing the effectiveness of the robot. Our solution for a simple Braitenberg vehicle is to add a single inhibitory neuron which laterally inhibits the output to the robot motors. This solution has additionally reduced the computational complexity of our simple neuron allowing for a greater number of neurons to be simulated with a fixed set of resources.},
	isbn = {978-1-4244-2763-5},
	issn = {2160-6374},
	doi = {10.1109/ALIFE.2009.4937710},
	url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4937710/},
	author = {David Bowes and Roderick G Adams and Lola Ca{\~n}amero and Volker Steuber and Davey, Neil}
}
