A statistical analysis of information-processing properties of lamina-specific cortical microcircuit models

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 149-162

  Haeusler, Stefan ^a   Maass, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cortical layers; Lamination; Microcircuit models; Real time computations; Small world networks; Temporal integration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEOCORTEX; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); RATS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 33845781025     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj132     Document Type: Article

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