A Personal Account of the Development of the Field Theory of Large-Scale Brain Activity from 1945 Onward

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-54593-1_2zbMath1462.92013OpenAlexW50518941MaRDI QIDQ4992847

Jack D. Cowan

Publication date: 10 June 2021

Published in: Neural Fields (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54593-1_2

zbMATH Keywords

master equationWilson-Cowan equationssystem size expansionlarge-scale brain activitymoment generating functions (MGF)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Neural networks for/in biological studies, artificial life and related topics (92B20)

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