Position-specific effects within the SERIOL framework of letter-position coding

Connection Science

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 235-255

  Whitney, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modelling; Letter position; Neural encoding

Indexed keywords

NEURAL ENCODING;

BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

EID: 0035545056     PISSN: 09540091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540090110083659     Document Type: Article

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