A neuromorphic VLSI head direction cell system

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 150-163

  Massoud, Tarek M ^a   Horiuchi, Timothy K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractor dynamics; head direction; navigation; neuromorphic very large scale integration; spiking neurons

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MAMMALS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ATTRACTOR DYNAMICS; BIOLOGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM; CURRENT ESTIMATES; HEAD DIRECTION; HEAD DIRECTION CELLS; NEUROMORPHIC; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; SPIKING NEURON;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650992155     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2010.2055310     Document Type: Article

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