Correlated neuronal discharges that increase coding efficiency during perceptual discrimination

Neuron

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 649-657

  Romo, Ranulfo ^a   Hernández, Adrián ^a   Zainos, Antonio ^a   Salinas, Emilio ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MONKEY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRATION;

EID: 0038689159     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(03)00287-3     Document Type: Article

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