Extremely dilute modular neuronal networks: Neocortical memory retrieval dynamics

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 57-79

  Mari, Carlo Fulvi ^a,b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Architecture multi modular network; Feature sharing; Memory retrieval; Modular autoassociator; Neocortex

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; NEURONS;

ARCHITECTURE MULTI-MODULAR NETWORK; AUTOASSOCIATORS; FEATURE SHARING; MEMORY RETRIEVAL; MODULAR AUTOASSOCIATOR; MODULAR NETWORK; MODULARS; MULTI-MODULAR; NEOCORTEX; RETRIEVAL DYNAMICS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEMORY; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NOISE; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; TIME;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PRIMATES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3342957494     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: 15736873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JCNS.0000023871.60959.88     Document Type: Article

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