Data-robust tight lower bounds to the information carried by spike times of a neuronal population

Neural Computation

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1962-2005

  Pola, G ^a   Petersen, R S ^b   Thiele, A ^c   Young, M P ^c   Panzeri, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MACACA; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RAT; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; MACACA; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; RATS; REACTION TIME; SELECTION BIAS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 22944447128     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0899766054322955     Document Type: Article

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