Adaptive visual and auditory map alignment in barn owl superior colliculus and its neuromorphic implementation

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1486-1497

  Huo, Juan ^a,b   Murray, Alan ^c   Wei, Dongqing ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axon growth; e puck robot; inhibitory network; parallel sensory information; spatial localization; spike density calculator; spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP); superior colliculus; very large scale integration (VLSI); visual and auditory integration

Indexed keywords

AXON GROWTH; SENSORY INFORMATION; SPATIAL LOCALIZATION; SPIKE DENSITY CALCULATOR; SPIKE TIMING DEPENDENT PLASTICITIES; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VERYLARGE-SCALE INTEGRATIONS (VLSI);

PRISMS; ROBOTS;

FARM BUILDINGS;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; OWL; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ROBOTICS; STRIGIFORMES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84875876068     PISSN: 2162237X     EISSN: 21622388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2012.2204771     Document Type: Article

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