Reliable neuronal logic devices from patterned hippocampal cultures

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 967-973

  Feinerman, Ofer ^a   Rotem, Assaf ^b   Moses, Elisha ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER CIRCUITS; ERROR CORRECTION; LOGIC DEVICES; NEURONS; REDUNDANCY;

GEOMETRICAL DESIGNS; HIPPOCAMPAL CULTURE; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; QUASI-ONE DIMENSIONAL; RELIABLE TRANSMISSION; SINGLE CONNECTION; THRESHOLD DEVICES; VON NEUMANN MODEL;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 57049113758     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1099     Document Type: Article

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