The neuronal empiricism hypothesis: Cerebral cortex is an unsupervised knowledge-seeking neural network

Neurocomputing

Volumn 38-40, Issue , 2001, Pages 1095-1100

  Beatty, Jackson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Knowledge seeking networks; Kohonen self organizing map; Neuronal empiricism; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

CELLS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SENSORY INPUTS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPIRICISM; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0035384098     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(01)00457-X     Document Type: Article

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