Synaptic transmission: An information-theoretic perspective

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 201-207

  Manwani, Amit ^a   Koch, Christof ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; CODING PARADIGMS; MEAN FIRING RATE; MEASURED PARAMETERS; OPTIMAL LINEAR ESTIMATORS; SIGNAL ESTIMATION; SPIKE DETECTORS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0002586836     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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