A moving bump in a continuous manifold: A comprehensive study of the tracking dynamics of continuous attractor neural networks

Neural Computation

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 752-792

  Fung, C C Alan ^a   Wong, K Y Michael ^a   Wu, Si ^b,c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REACTION TIME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77951948643     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.2009.07-08-824     Document Type: Article

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