Firing rate distributions and efficiency of information transmission of inferior temporal cortex neurons to natural visual stimuli

Neural Computation

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 601-631

  Treves, Alessandro ^a   Panzeri, Stefano ^b   Rolls, Edmund T ^b   Booth, Michael ^b   Wakeman, Edward A ^b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0033109861     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976699300016593     Document Type: Article

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