Correlations and the encoding of information in the nervous system

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1423, 1999, Pages 1001-1012

  Panzeri, Stefano ^a   Schultz, Simon R ^a   Treves, Alessandro ^b   Rolls, Edmund T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Correlations; Information theory; Neural code; Redundancy; Synchronization; Synergy

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033594680     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0736     Document Type: Article

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