Distributed representation of tone frequency in highly decodable spatio-temporal activity in the auditory cortex

Neural Networks

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 321-332

  Funamizu, Akihiro ^a   Kanzaki, Ryohei ^a,b   Takahashi, Hirokazu ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Dimensionality reduction; Machine learning; Multi unit recording; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CORTEX; DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION; DISCRIMINATION ABILITY; DISTRIBUTED CODES; DISTRIBUTED REPRESENTATION; MACHINE-LEARNING; MULTI-UNIT ACTIVITY; MULTI-UNIT RECORDING; NEURAL ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATTERNS; RECURSIVE FEATURE ELIMINATION; SOUND FREQUENCY; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ACTIVITIES; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; TEST FREQUENCIES;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

DECODING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUND PRESSURE; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPIKE WAVE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; MALE; NEURONS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOUND; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79951956437     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2010.12.010     Document Type: Article

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