Mutual Information, Fisher Information, and Population Coding

Neural Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1731-1757

  Brunel, Nicolas ^a   Nadal, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION THEORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS;

EID: 0032184953     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976698300017115     Document Type: Article

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