Information encoding in the inferior temporal visual cortex: Contributions of the firing rates and the correlations between the firing of neurons

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-32

  Rolls, Edmund T ^a   Aggelopoulos, Nikolaos C ^a   Franco, Leonardo ^a   Treves, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELLS; CORRELATION METHODS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HISTOLOGY; INFORMATION THEORY; MICROELECTRODES; PROBABILITY; REDUNDANCY; SYNCHRONIZATION; VECTORS; X RAYS;

FIRING RATES; NEURONS; TAYLOR EXPANSION; VISUAL SYSTEMS;

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

MACACA;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; MACACA; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 2142825024     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-003-0451-5     Document Type: Article

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