Dynamic stochastic synapses as computational units

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 194-200

  Maass, Wolfgang ^a   Zador, Anthony M ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL POWER; COMPUTATIONAL UNITS; NEURAL CIRCUITS; NEURAL COMPUTATIONS; NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; SIMPLE MODELING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME VARYING SIGNAL;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84898956641     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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