Coarse coding: Calculation of the resolution achieved by a population of large receptive field neurons

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 357-363

  Eurich, Christian W ^a   Schwegler, Helmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; VISUAL FIELD;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0031133333     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004220050349     Document Type: Article

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