Bursts generate a non-reducible spike-pattern code

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2009, Pages

  Eyherabide, Hugo G ^a,b   Rokem, Ariel ^a,c   Herz, Andreas V M ^a,d   Samengo, Inés ^a,b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CENTRO ATÓMICO BARILOCHE   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory receptor; Burst spiking; Information theory; Neural code; Sensory encoding

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952243036     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.01.002.2009     Document Type: Review

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