Criteria for optimizing cortical hierarchies with continuous ranges

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2010, Pages

  Krumnack, Antje ^a   Reid, Andrew T ^b,c   Wanke, Egon ^d   Bezgin, Gleb ^b,c   Kötter, Rolf ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Hierarchy; Linear programming; Macaque; Mixed integer programming; Optimality; Visual system

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959698426     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2010.00007     Document Type: Article

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