Population coding by cell assemblies - What it really is in the brain

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-16

  Sakurai, Yoshio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activity correlations; Behaving animals; Cell assembly; Functional overlapping; Memory; Neuronal recording; Population coding; Synaptic connections

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CODING; DENDRITE; DYNAMICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROSCIENCE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0030248164     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(96)01075-9     Document Type: Review

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