Accelerating event-driven simulation of spiking neurons with multiple synaptic time constants

Neural Computation

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1068-1099

  D'Haene, Michiel ^a   Schrauwen, Benjamin ^a   Van Campenhout, Jan ^a   Stroobandt, Dirk ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 65549102992     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.2008.02-08-707     Document Type: Letter

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