Artificial astrocytes improve neural network performance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Porto Pazos, Ana B ^a   Veiguela, Noha ^a   Mesejo, Pablo ^a   Navarrete, Marta ^b   Alvarellos, Alberto ^a   Ibáñez, Oscar ^a   Pazos, Alejandro ^a   Araque, Alfonso ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL COUNT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; ARTIFICIAL CELL; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL;

ARTIFICIAL CELLS; ASTROCYTES; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS;

EID: 79955445385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019109     Document Type: Article

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