Latent attractors: A model for context-dependent place representations in the hippocampus

Neural Computation

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1009-1043

  Doboli, Simona ^a   Minai, Ali A ^a,b   Best, Phillip J ^a,b  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT;

AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); RATS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034180689     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976600300015484     Document Type: Article

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