Solving the binding problem of the brain with bi-directional functional connectivity

Neural Networks

Volumn 14, Issue 4-5, 2001, Pages 395-406

  Watanabe, Masataka ^a,b   Nakanishi, Kousaku ^a   Aihara, Kazuyuki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bidirectional connections; Binding problem; Functional connectivity; Global dynamic cell assembly

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

TEMPORAL SPIKES;

NEUROLOGY;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0035019821     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-6080(01)00036-3     Document Type: Article

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