Population coding of orientation in the visual cortex of alert cats - An information theoretic analysis

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 2761-2764

  Kayser, Christoph ^a,c   König, Peter ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Area 21a; Firing rate; Information; Population coding; Redundancy; Synergy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CAT; CODING; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; INFORMATION THEORY; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); ORIENTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 11244271938     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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