Engines of the brain: The computational instruction set of human cognition

AI Magazine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 15-31

  Granger, Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University's Brain Engineering Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL INSTRUCTION SET; HUMAN-LEVEL INTELLIGENCE; SPECIFIC HYPOTHESIS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745892592     PISSN: 07384602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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