A connectionist model of left-right sound discrimination by the Mauthner system

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 121-144

  Guzik, Audrey L ^a   Eaton, Robert C ^b   Mathis, Donald W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Artificial neural networks; Auditory; Connectionism; Escape; Fish; Goldfish; Localization; Mauthner; Phase model; XNOR model

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; COMPUTATION THEORY; FISH; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

AUDITORY; CONNECTIONISM; CONNECTIONIST MODELS; ESCAPE; GOLDFISHES; LOCALISATION; MAUTHN; PHASE MODEL; SOUND DISCRIMINATION; XNOR MODEL;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN STEM; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; GOLDFISH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOUND DETECTION; TELEOST;

EID: 0032904288     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008828501676     Document Type: Article

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