Neocortex's architecture optimizes computation, information transfer and synchronizability, at given total connection length

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2257-2279

  Stoop, R ^a   Wagner, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computation; Neural architecture; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CONNECTION LENGTH; INFORMATION PROPAGATION; INFORMATION TRANSFER;

DATA TRANSFER;

EID: 34548485597     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127407018373     Document Type: Article

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