On population encoding and decoding of auditory information for bat echolocation

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 311-326

  Reijniers, Jonas ^a   Peremans, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bat echolocation; Information transmission; Spectrogram; Spike code

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INFORMATION; AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; AUDITORY NERVES; BAT ECHOLOCATION; CONVERSION PROCESS; ENCODING AND DECODING; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; HEARING SYSTEM; INFORMATION TRANSMISSION; INNER HAIR CELLS; NEURAL ACTIVITY; NEURAL ENCODING; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SPECTROGRAMS; TIME INTERVAL; TRANSIENT SIGNAL;

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MAMMALS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS; SPECTROGRAPHS; UNDERWATER AUDITION;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EPTESICUS FUSCUS; MAMMALIA;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COCHLEAR NERVE; CYBERNETICS; CYTOLOGY; ECHOLOCATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HAIR CELL; HEARING; HISTOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHIROPTERA; COCHLEAR NERVE; CYBERNETICS; ECHOLOCATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, INNER; HEARING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 77952091241     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-010-0368-8     Document Type: Article

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