How well can we estimate the information carried in neuronal responses from limited samples?

Neural Computation

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 649-665

  Golomb, David ^a   Hertz, John ^b   Panzeri, Stefano ^c   Treves, Alessandro ^d   Richmond, Barry ^e  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b NORDITA   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d SISSA   (Italy)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031112991     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.1997.9.3.649     Document Type: Article

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