The contribution of spike threshold to acoustic feature selectivity, spike information content, and information throughput

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 41, 2005, Pages 9524-9534

  Escabí, Monty A ^a,b   Nassiri, Reza ^b   Miller, Lee M ^c   Schreiner, Christoph E ^d   Read, Heather L ^b  

^a University of Connecticut   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature selectivity; Inferior colliculus; Linear rate code; Mutual information; Neural code; Spectrotemporal; Spike threshold

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; CAT; CODING; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINEAR RATE CODE; MODEL; NERVE CELL CODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SOUND SELECTIVITY; SPIKE; SPIKE INFORMATION; SPIKE RATE; SPIKE THRESHOLD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 26844524263     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1804-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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