Testing the efficiency of sensory coding with optimal stimulus ensembles

Neuron

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 447-456

  Machens, Christian K ^a   Gollisch, Tim ^b,c   Kolesnikova, Olga ^b   Herz, Andreas V M ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GRASSHOPPER; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; REACTION TIME;

EID: 23044462075     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2005.06.015     Document Type: Article

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