The formation of categories and the representation of feature saliency:

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 401-425

  Ursino, Mauro ^a   Cuppini, Cristiano ^a   Magosso, Elisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Auto associative networks; category formation; concept representation; Hebb rule; saliency; semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPERIENCE; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SYNAPSES;

EID: 84891598528     PISSN: 02196352     EISSN: 1757448X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219635213500246     Document Type: Article

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