Oscillatory neurocomputing with ring attractors: A network architecture for mapping locations in space onto patterns of neural synchrony

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1635, 2014, Pages

  Blair, Hugh T ^a   Wu, Allan ^b   Cong, Jason ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Entorhinal cortex; Grid cells; Hippocampus; Memory; Place cells; Theta rhythm

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ERROR ANALYSIS; LOCATION THEORY; MAPPING; NEUROLOGY; SIMULATION; SYNCHRONY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GRID CELLS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACE CELLS; THETA RHYTHM;

ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GRID CELLS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; PLACE CELLS; THETA RHYTHM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; SPACE PERCEPTION; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84906921643     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0526     Document Type: Article

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