A competitive neural model of small number detection

Neural Networks

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1475-1489

  Casey, Matthew C ^a   Ahmad, Khurshid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Modular systems; Neural modelling; Number; Quantification; Subitization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

MODULAR SYSTEMS; NEURAL MODELING; NUMBER DETECTION; QUANTIFICATION; SUBTILIZATION;

NUMBER THEORY;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TRAINING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 33751226286     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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