The limits of counting accuracy in distributed neural representations

Neural Computation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 477-504

  Gardner Medwin, A R ^a   Barlow, H B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PHYSIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

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ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; CYTOLOGY; LEARNING; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; LEARNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0035286580     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976601300014420     Document Type: Article

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