On the role of biophysical properties of cortical neurons in binding and segmentation of visual scenes

Neural Computation

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1113-1138

  Verschure, Paul F M J ^a,b,c   König, Peter ^a,c  

^a Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN CORTEX; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECEPTORS, GABA; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0033161268     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976699300016377     Document Type: Article

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