Synaptic Pruning in Development: A Computational Account

Neural Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1759-1777

  Chechik, Gal ^a   Meilijson, Isaac ^a   Ruppin, Eytan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PRIMATES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0032185582     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976698300017124     Document Type: Article

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