Information and discriminability as measures of reliability of sensory coding

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Grewe, Jan ^a,b   Weckström, Matti ^c   Egelhaaf, Martin ^a   Warzecha, Anne Kathrin ^a,b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LIGHT INTENSITY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WHITE NOISE; ANIMAL; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 44349167608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001328     Document Type: Article

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