Higher-dimensional neurons explain the tuning and dynamics of working memory cells

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3667-3678

  Singh, Ray ^a   Eliasmith, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive; Computational model; Neural dynamics; Population coding; Reward uncertainty; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL POPULATION; CELL STIMULATION; MEMORY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; WORKING MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS;

EID: 33645575187     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4864-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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