Inferring the capacity of the vector Poisson channel with a Bernoulli model

Network: Computation in Neural Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-33

  Johnson, Don H ^a   Goodman, Ilan N ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Information capacity; Neural populations; Neural prosthetics; Point process

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 40049107269     PISSN: 0954898X     EISSN: 13616536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09548980701656798     Document Type: Article

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