Connectionist Learning - Some New Ideas

[Guido.Bugmann xtn 2566]

On Sat, 18 May 1996 rao at cs.rochester.edu wrote:

> >One loses about 100,000 cortical neurons a day (about a percent of
> >the original number every three years) under normal conditions.
> 
> Does anyone have a concrete citation (a journal article) for this or
> any other similar estimate regarding the daily cell death rate in the
> cortex of a normal brain?  I've read such numbers in a number of
> connectionist papers but none cite any neurophysiological studies that
> substantiate these numbers.

A similar question (are there references for 1 millions neurons lost 
per day ?) came up in a discussion on the topic of robustness 
on connectionists a few years ago (1992). Some of the replies were:


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