Coding and transmission of information by neural ensembles

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 225-230

  Averbeck, Bruno B ^a   Lee, Daeyeol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY CORTEX; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE WAVE;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 1642407624     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2004.02.006     Document Type: Review

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