A neuromorphic VLSI model of bat interaural level difference processing for azimuthal echolocation

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 74-88

  Shi, Rock Z ^a   Horiuchi, Timothy K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Address event representation (AER); Auditory system; Interaural level difference (ILD); Neuromorphic VLSI; Spiking neurons

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ADDRESS-EVENT REPRESENTATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; INTERAURAL LEVEL DIFFERENCE; NEUROMORPHIC VLSI;

VLSI CIRCUITS;

EID: 33847687631     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2006.887981     Document Type: Article

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