Emergent auditory feature tuning in a real-time neuromorphicVLSI system

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2012, Pages

  Sheik, Sadique ^a   Coath, Martin ^b   Indiveri, Giacomo ^a   Denham, Susan L ^b   Wennekers, Thomas ^b   Chicca, Elisabetta ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Address event representation; Auditory; Mismatch; Neuromorphic VLSI; Spectro temporal features; STDP; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

EID: 84862183463     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00017     Document Type: Article

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