Processing of hierarchic stimulus structures has advantages in humans and animals

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 531-536

  Siemann, Martina ^a   Delius, Juan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA PROCESSING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

HIERARCHIC STIMULUS STRUCTURES; STIMULUS INEQUALITY STRUCTURES;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PIGEON;

ADULT; ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NERVE NET; PIGEONS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028672060     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00198471     Document Type: Article

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