Wiring optimization in the brain

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 103-107

  Chklovskii, Dmitri B ^a   Stevens, Charles F ^b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURONS;

COMPUTATIONAL POWER; CORTICAL VOLUMES;

WIRE;

EID: 84898929866     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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