Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1432-1438

  Ma, Wei Ji ^a   Beck, Jeffrey M ^a   Latham, Peter E ^b   Pouget, Alexandre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE NET; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33750437292     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1790     Document Type: Article

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