Simulation of a Thalamocortical Circuit for Computing Directional Heading in the Rat

NIPS 1995: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 1995, Pages 152-158

  Blair, Hugh T ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Yale Neuroengineering and Neuroscience Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TIMING CIRCUITS;

BIOPHYSICAL MODEL; CELL ACTIVITY; HEAD DIRECTION CELLS; NEURAL SIMULATORS; RATS BRAIN; SPATIAL NAVIGATION;

RATS;

EID: 85156234083     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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