Reading population codes: A neural implementation of ideal observers

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 740-745

  Deneve, Sophie ^a   Latham, Peter E ^b   Pouget, Alexandre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOISE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TUNING CURVE;

BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033360244     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/11205     Document Type: Article

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