Self-organization of an artificial neural network subjected to attention shift impairments and familiarity preference, characteristics studied in autism

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 189-198

  Gustafsson, Lennart ^a   Papliński, Andrew P ^b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Autism; Neural networks; Self organizing maps

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; LEARNING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW;

ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PROBLEM SOLVING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 3543133683     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JADD.0000022609.31371.4d     Document Type: Review

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