Neural Cognitive Modelling: A Biologically Constrained Spiking Neuron Model of the Tower of Hanoi Task

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 656-661

  Stewart, Terrence C ^a   Eliasmith, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

cognitive architectures; computational neuroscience; neural engineering; Tower of Hanoi

Indexed keywords

BRAIN;

COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURES; COGNITIVE MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE; CONNECTION WEIGHTS; CORTEXES; NEURAL ENGINEERING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATE INFORMATION; SYNAPTIC CONNECTIONS; TOWERS OF HANOI;

NEURONS;

EID: 85139521535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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