Stimulus encoding and feature extraction by multiple sensory neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2374-2382

  Krahe, Rüdiger ^a,d   Kreiman, Gabriel ^b   Gabbiani, Fabrizio ^c   Koch, Christof ^b   Metzner, Walter ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bursting; Correlated activity; Neural coding; Signal detection; Stimulus estimation; Weakly electric fish

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC FISH; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0037088933     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-06-02374.2002     Document Type: Article

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