Adaptive Synaptogenesis Constructs Neural Codes That Benefit Discrimination.

Intelligent organisms face a variety of tasks requiring the acquisition of expertise within a specific domain, including the ability to discriminate between a large number of similar patterns. From an energy-efficiency perspective, effective discrimination requires a prudent allocation of neural res...

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Main Authors: Blake T Thomas, Davis W Blalock, William B Levy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-07-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4503424?pdf=render