Optimal neural rate coding leads to bimodal firing rate distributions

Network: Computation in Neural Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 303-319

  Bethge, M ^a   Rotermund, D ^a   Pawelzik, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0346216883     PISSN: 0954898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0954-898X_14_2_307     Document Type: Article

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