Modeling motor cortical operations by an attractor network of stochastic neurons

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 255-261

  Lukashin, A V ^a,b   Amirikian, B R ^a,b   Mozhaev, V L ^a,b   Wilcox, G L ^b   Georgopoulos, A P ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYBERNETICS; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CYBERNETICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030093858     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00652226     Document Type: Article

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