Neural representations of compositional structures: Representing and manipulating vector spaces with spiking neurons

Connection Science

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 145-153

  Stewart, Terrence C ^a   Bekolay, Trevor ^a   Eliasmith, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed representation; Localist representation; Neural engineering framework; Neural representation; Preferred direction vectors; Vector symbolic architectures

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957820962     PISSN: 09540091     EISSN: 13600494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540091.2011.571761     Document Type: Article

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