Bayesian population decoding of spiking neurons

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2009, Pages

  Gerwinn, Sebastian ^a   Macke, Jakob ^a   Bethge, Matthias ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Approximate inference; Bayesian decoding; Population coding; Spiking neurons

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE INFERENCE; BAYESIAN DECODING; INTEGRATE-AND-FIRE NEURONS; POPULATION CODING; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE; SPIKING NEURON; TEMPORAL FLUCTUATION;

DECODING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

NEURONS;

EID: 79952479743     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.10.021.2009     Document Type: Article

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