A unified approach to the study of temporal, correlational, and rate coding

Neural Computation

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1311-1349

  Panzeri, Stefano ^a   Schultz, Simon R ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RAT; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURONS; PROBABILITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0035374404     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/08997660152002870     Document Type: Article

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