Quantifying variability in neural responses and its application for the validation of model predictions

Network: Computation in Neural Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 91-109

  Hsu, Anne ^a   Borst, Alexander ^b   Theunissen, Frédéric E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRONICS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NERVE POTENTIAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 2942562852     PISSN: 0954898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0954-898X_15_2_002     Document Type: Article

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