Parameter Extraction from Population Codes: A Critical Assessment

Neural Computation

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 511-529

  Snippe, Herman P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SENSATION;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SENSATION;

EID: 0030114579     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.1996.8.3.511     Document Type: Article

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