Spatiotemporal Computations of an Excitable and Plastic Brain: Neuronal Plasticity Leads to Noise-Robust and Noise-Constructive Computations

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Toutounji, Hazem ^a   Pipa, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY;

CORTICAL NETWORK; ESTABLISHED FACTS; LEARN+; NEURAL CODE; NEURAL COMPUTATIONS; NEURAL FUNCTIONS; NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NOISE ROBUST; PROPERTY;

NEURONS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84897439146     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003512     Document Type: Article

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