Can self-organisation emerge through dynamic neural fields computation?

Connection Science

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-31

  Alecu, Lucian ^a,b   Frezza Buet, Hervé ^a,c   Alexandre, Frédéric ^b  

^a SUPELEC   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive systems; Dynamic neural fields; Self organisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956110015     PISSN: 09540091     EISSN: 13600494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540091.2010.526194     Document Type: Article

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