Self-Organization of Local Cortical Circuits and Cortical Orientation Maps: A Nonlinear Hebbian Model of the Visual Cortex with Adaptive Lateral Couplings

Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section C Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 56, Issue 5-6, 2001, Pages 464-478

  Burger, Thomas ^a   Lang, Elmar Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Local cortical circuits; Nonlinear hebbian learning; Self organisation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; MAMMALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0035345952     PISSN: 09395075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/znc-2001-5-622     Document Type: Article

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