A Unifying Mechanistic Model of Selective Attention in Spiking Neurons

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Bobier, Bruce ^a   Stewart, Terrence C ^a   Eliasmith, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CORTEXES; CORTICAL NEURONS; MECHANISTIC MODELS; MECHANISTICS; RECEPTIVE FIELDS; ROUTINGS; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL ATTENTION; SPIKING NEURON MODELS; SPIKING NEURONES;

NEURONS;

ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL ROUTING CIRCUIT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MACACA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPIKE WAVE; VALIDATION PROCESS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BRAIN CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MACACA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84903388383     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003577     Document Type: Article

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