Effects of noise correlations on information encoding and decoding

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3633-3644

  Averbeck, Bruno B ^a   Lee, Daeyeol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; INFORMATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33744938678     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00919.2005     Document Type: Article

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