Neural decision boundaries for maximal information transmission

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Sharpee, Tatyana ^a   Bialek, William ^b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENTROPY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISION;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; DECISION MAKING; ENTROPY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 39849096003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000646     Document Type: Article

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