Selectivity and sparseness in randomly connected balanced networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Pehlevan, Cengiz ^a,c   Sompolinsky, Haim ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SELECTIVITY; SENSORY CORTEX; SIMULATION; SPARSENESS; STIMULUS; SYNAPSE;

MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84897795412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089992     Document Type: Article

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