Computing information in neuronal spikes

Neural Processing Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 183-199

  Aur, Dorian ^a   Connolly, Christopher I ^b   Jog, Mandar S ^a  

^a Movement Disorders Program   (Canada)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy; Information theory; Informational resonance; Mutual information; Neural coding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

INFORMATIONAL RESONANCE; MUTUAL INFORMATION; NEURAL CODING;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 33645532463     PISSN: 13704621     EISSN: 1573773X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11063-006-6266-3     Document Type: Article

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