Analog Versus Digital: Extrapolating from Electronics to Neurobiology

Neural Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1601-1638

  Sarpeshkar, Rahul ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG COMPUTER; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER; ECONOMICS; ELECTRONICS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NEUROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; COMPUTERS; COMPUTERS, ANALOG; ELECTRONICS; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEUROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0032185581     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976698300017052     Document Type: Review

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