An efficient simulation environment for modeling large-scale cortical processing

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Richert, Micah ^a   Nageswaran, Jayram Moorkanikara ^b   Dutt, Nikil ^b   Krichmar, Jeffrey L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational neuroscience; GPU; Short term plasticity; Simulation; Software; Spiking neurons; STDP; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PROCESS MODEL; SIMULATOR; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SYNAPSE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 84993985120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2011.00019     Document Type: Article

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