Synaptic computation underlying probabilistic inference

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 112-119

  Soltani, Alireza ^a,b   Wang, Xiao Jing ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BAYES THEOREM; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONKEY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SYNAPSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; LEARNING; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REWARD;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REWARD; SYNAPSES;

EID: 73949142431     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2450     Document Type: Article

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