Noisy spiking neurons with temporal coding have more computational power than sigmoidal neurons

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 211-217

  Maass, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURONS;

COMPUTATIONAL POWER; SPIKING NEURON; TEMPORAL CODING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84898929097     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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