The emergence of Miller's magic number on a sparse distributed memory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Linhares, Alexandre ^a   Chada, Daniel M ^a   Aranha, Christian N ^b  

^a FUNDAÇÃO GETÚLIO VARGAS   (Brazil)

^b Cortex Intelligence ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL; NEUROSCIENCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEUROSCIENCES;

EID: 79251562149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015592     Document Type: Article

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