Information processing with population codes

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 125-132

  Pouget, Alexandre ^a   Dayan, Peter ^b   Zemel, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; NERVE CELL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0034329021     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35039062     Document Type: Article

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