How to measure the information gained from one symbol

Network: Computation in Neural Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 325-340

  DeWeese, Michael R ^a   Meister, Markus ^b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATES;

EID: 0009525409     PISSN: 0954898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0954-898X_10_4_303     Document Type: Article

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