Brain complexity: Analysis, models and limits of understanding

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5601 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages 195-204

  Schierwagen, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; BRAIN SCIENCE; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; COMPUTING PARADIGM; CORTICAL COLUMNS; DECOMPOSABILITY; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; INTRINSIC PROPERTY; KEY FEATURE; OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLES; SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS; STANDARD METHOD;

BRAIN MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 71049176202     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02264-7_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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