Some neural networks compute, others don't

Neural Networks

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 311-321

  Piccinini, Gualtiero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Cognition; Computation; Connectionism; Mechanism; Neural network

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTABILITY AND DECIDABILITY; COMPUTATION THEORY; DIGITAL COMPUTERS; LOGIC GATES;

COGNITION; COMPUTABILITY THEORY; CONNECTIONISM;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOPHYSICS; COGNITION; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIGITAL COMPUTER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERS, ANALOG; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS;

EID: 40649085781     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2007.12.010     Document Type: Article

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