Spike timing and the coding of naturalistic sounds in a central auditory area of songbirds

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Wright, Brian D ^a   Sen, Kamal ^a   Bialek, William ^a,c,d   Doupe, Allison J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL STRUCTURE; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; NEURAL RESPONSE; SENSORY STIMULUS; SPIKE PATTERNS; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TIME RESOLUTION; VISUAL SYSTEMS;

BIRDS;

EID: 4043118314     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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