Can Hebbian Volume Learning Explain Discontinuities in Cortical Maps?

Neural Computation

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1519-1526

  Mitchison, Graeme J ^a   Swindale, Nicholas V ^b  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 0033210717     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976699300016115     Document Type: Article

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