Binary spiking in auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 7940-7949

  DeWeese, Michael R ^a   Wehr, Michael ^a   Zador, Anthony M ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Cell attached recording; Neural coding; Neural computation; Neural reliability; Poisson spiking

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; NERVE CELL; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPIKE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0041819709     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-21-07940.2003     Document Type: Article

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