Information Tuning of Populations of Neurons in Primary Visual Cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3726-3735

  Kang, Kukjin ^a,b   Shapley, Robert M ^a   Sompolinsky, Haim ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chernoff distance; Discrimination; Macaque monkey; Orientation selectivity; Population coding; Primary visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TUNING CURVE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); INFORMATION THEORY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORIENTATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 1942489861     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4272-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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