Systems-level neuronal modeling of visual attentional mechanisms

Artificial Intelligence Review

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 143-160

  Corchs, S ^a   Stetter, M ^a   Deco, G ^a,b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biased competition; Computational neuroscience; Neurodynamical model; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION;

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE; NEURODYNAMICAL MODEL; SYSTEMS-LEVEL NEURONAL MODELING; VISUAL ATTENTIONAL MECHANISMS;

NEUROLOGY;

EID: 0242579361     PISSN: 02692821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026028429257     Document Type: Article

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