Extracting number-selective responses from coherent oscillations in a computer model

Neural Computation

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1766-1797

  Miller, Jeremy A ^a   Kenyon, Garrett T ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PERIODICITY; RETINA; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34447268480     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.2007.19.7.1766     Document Type: Article

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