The neural basis for combinatorial coding in a cortical population response

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 50, 2008, Pages 13522-13531

  Osborne, Leslie C ^a   Palmer, Stephanie E ^b   Lisberger, Stephen G ^a   Bialek, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated variability; Information theory; MT; Smooth pursuit; Spike trains; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; MONKEY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HAPLORHINI; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 58149393865     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4390-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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