Coarse coding: Applications to the visual system of salamanders

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-47

  Eurich, Christian W ^a,b   Schwegler, Helmut ^b   Woesler, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA;

EID: 0007104962     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004220050365     Document Type: Article

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