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On the Computational Power of Neural Microcircuit Models: Pointers to the Literature

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This paper provides references for my invited talk on the computational power of neural microcircuit models.

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Maass, W. (2002). On the Computational Power of Neural Microcircuit Models: Pointers to the Literature. In: Dorronsoro, J.R. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks — ICANN 2002. ICANN 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2415. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46084-5_42

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