Spike Train Processing by a Silicon Neuromorph: The Role of Sublinear Summation in Dendrites

Neural Computation

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1245-1265

  Northmore, David P M ^a   Elias, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DENDRITE; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTOSOME;

DENDRITES; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS;

EID: 0030586661     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.1996.8.6.1245     Document Type: Article

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