大きな茶色のコウモリの大脳皮質の聴覚皮質における音響シーンを表現するためのニューロンの可能性のある基礎

S P Dear1, J A Simmons, J Fritz

  • 1Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912.

Nature
|August 12, 1993
PubMed
まとめ

エコーロケーションするコウモリは,エコー遅延をニューラル表現に変換することによって,複数のオブジェクトの音響画像を作成します. このプロセスは,コウモリが複雑な音響シーンを認識することを可能にし,コンピュータによる視覚画像処理に似ています.

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