Neural Computation and the Computational Theory of Cognition

Cognitive Science

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 453-488

  Piccinini, Gualtiero ^a   Bahar, Sonya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog computation; Computational theory of cognition; Digital computation; Neural computation; Spike trains

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875609976     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12012     Document Type: Article

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