Sparse coding of birdsong and receptive field structure in songbirds

Network: Computation in Neural Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 162-177

  Greene, Garrett ^a   Barrett, David G T ^a,b   Sen, Kamal ^c   Houghton, Conor ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory system; Natural scenes; Sparse coding; Spectro temporal receptive field

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FINCH; HEARING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FINCHES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 70349871691     PISSN: 0954898X     EISSN: 13616536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09548980903108267     Document Type: Article

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