Ecological expected utility and the mythical neural code

Cognitive Neurodynamics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-35

  Feldman, Jerome ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Binding problem; Ecological utility; Grandmother cell; Neural coding; Neuroeconomics; Population code; Spikes

Indexed keywords

DNA; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADAPTATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; FITNESS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE;

EID: 77249179153     PISSN: 18714080     EISSN: 18714099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11571-009-9090-4     Document Type: Review

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