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Electric stimulation in neural cultures in neural cultures may be used for creating adjacent physical or logical connections in the connectivity graph following Hebb’s Law modifying the neural responses principal parameters. The created biological structure may be used for computing a certain function, however this achieved structure vanished with time as the stimulation stops. A DTCNN architecture, specifically designed for optimum parallel implementation over dedicated hardware, is proposed to emulate the behavior ans structure of the biological neuronal culture. The FPGA circuit can be used as a permanent model and is also intended to facilitate and speed up further experimentation.
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Lorente, V., Martínez-Álvarez, J.J., Ferrández-Vicente, J.M., Garrigós, J., Fernández, E., Toledo, J. (2015). FPGA Translation of Functional Hippocampal Cultures Structures Using Cellular Neural Networks. In: Ferrández Vicente, J., Álvarez-Sánchez, J., de la Paz López, F., Toledo-Moreo, F., Adeli, H. (eds) Artificial Computation in Biology and Medicine. IWINAC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9107. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18914-7_24
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