Neural coding and decoding: Communication channels and quantization

Network: Computation in Neural Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 441-472

  Dimitrov, Alexander G ^a   Miller, John P ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION THEORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0042908987     PISSN: 0954898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0954-898X/12/4/303     Document Type: Article

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