How does the cerebral cortex work? Learning, attention, and groupings by the laminar circuits of visual cortex

Spatial Vision

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 163-185

  Grossberg, Stephen ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; CONSTRAINT THEORY;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICAL MAPS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LEARNING; NEOCORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; HUMANS; LEARNING; NEOCORTEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033237828     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856899X00102     Document Type: Article

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