Accuracy evaluation of numerical methods used in state-of-the-art simulators for spiking neural networks

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 309-326

  Henker, Stephan ^a   Partzsch, Johannes ^a   Schüffny, René ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Integrate and fire; Neural network simulation; Numerical accuracy; STDP

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS;

ACCURACY EVALUATION; DETERMINISTICS; INTEGRATE AND FIRES; NEURAL NETWORK SIMULATIONS; NEURAL-NETWORKS; NUMERICAL ACCURACY; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION METHOD; SPIKE TIMING DEPENDENT PLASTICITIES; STATE OF THE ART;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIMULATOR; SPIKE;

EID: 84863864773     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: 15736873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-011-0353-9     Document Type: Article

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