Quantitative information transfer through layers of spiking neurons connected by Mexican-Hat-type connectivity
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A feedforward network with homogeneous connectivity cannot transmit quantitative information by one spike volley. In this paper, quantitative information transmission through neural layers connected by Mexican-Hat-type connectivity is examined. It is shown that the intensity of an input signal can be encoded as a size of an active region in a neural layer. c © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Neurocomputing
دوره 58-60 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004