Emergence of multiplication in a biophysical model of a wide-field visual neuron for computing object approaches: Dynamics, peaks, & fits

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24: 25th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2011, NIPS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Keil, Matthias S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS;

ANGULAR SIZES; BIOPHYSICAL MODEL; DETECTOR MODELING; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FIRING RATES; LOBULA GIANT MOVEMENT DETECTOR NEURONS; LOBULA GIANT MOVEMENT DETECTORS; TIME-TO-CONTACT; VISUAL NEURONS; WIDE-FIELD;

EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS;

EID: 85162399121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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