Temporal coding of visual information in the thalamus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 5392-5400

  Reinagel, Pamela ^a   Reid, R Clay ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy; Information theory; LGN; Neural coding; Reliability; Variability; White noise

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAT; CELL FUNCTION; ENTROPY; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 0034662092     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-14-05392.2000     Document Type: Article

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