Inference and computation with population codes

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue , 2003, Pages 381-410

  Pouget, Alexandre ^a   Dayan, Peter ^b   Zemel, Richard S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basis functions; Bayes rule; Decoding; Firing rate; Noise; Probabilistic inference; Probability distribution

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERNEURON; MOTIVATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; NERVE NET; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0041355614     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.26.041002.131112     Document Type: Review

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