Digital selection and analogue amplification coexist in a cortex- inspired silicon circuit

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6789, 2000, Pages 947-951

  Hahnioser, Richard H R ^a,c   Sarpeshkar, Rahul ^b,d   Mahowald, Misha A ^a   Douglas, Rodney J ^a   Seung, H Sebastian ^b,c  

^a Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; DIGITAL FILTERING; HUMAN; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; NEOCORTEX; PATTERN GENERATOR; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS; SYNAPSE;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEOCORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; SILICON;

EID: 0034702306     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35016072     Document Type: Article

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