An exact method to quantify the information transmitted by different mechanisms of correlational coding

Network: Computation in Neural Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-60

  Pola, G ^a   Thiele, A ^a   Hoffmann, K P ^b   Panzeri, S ^c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL INTERACTION; CELL POPULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; INFORMATION SCIENCE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; RECORDING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TECHNIQUE; TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION THEORY; METHODS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0347423196     PISSN: 0954898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0954-898X/14/1/303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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