Tuning curve sharpening for orientation selectivity: Coding efficiency and the impact of correlations

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1129-1135

  Seriès, Peggy ^a   Latham, Peter E ^a   Pouget, Alexandre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUNING CURVE; VISUAL CORTEX; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; GENICULATE BODY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 16544371162     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1321     Document Type: Article

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