Brian hears: Online auditory processing using vectorization over channels

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Fontaine, Bertrand ^a,b   Goodman, Dan F M ^a,b   Benichoux, Victor ^a,b   Brette, Romain ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Auditory filter; Brian; GPU; Python; Vectorization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; COMPUTER MODEL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84993122841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2011.00009     Document Type: Article

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