A (somewhat) new solution to the variable binding problem

Neural Computation

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2361-2378

  Barrett, Leon ^a   Feldman, Jerome ^b   Mac Dermed, Liam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS;

EID: 51349150006     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.2008.07-06-290     Document Type: Article

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