An information theoretic approach to the contributions of the firing rates and the correlations between the firing of neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2810-2822

  Rolls, Edmund T ^a   Franco, Leonardo ^a   Aggelopoulos, Nicholas C ^a   Reece, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; INFORMATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THEORY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INFORMATION THEORY; MACACA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0037879287     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01070.2002     Document Type: Article

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