Timing in the Absence of Clocks: Encoding Time in Neural Network States

Neuron

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 427-438

  Karmarkar, Uma R ^a   Buonomano, Dean V ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSBIO; SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846498557     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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