Probabilistic synaptic transmission in the associative net

Neural Computation

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 117-137

  Graham, Bruce ^a   Willshaw, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASSOCIATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ASSOCIATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032608981     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976699300016845     Document Type: Article

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