Information carried by population spike times in the whisker sensory cortex can be decoded without knowledge of stimulus time

Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUN, 2010, Pages

  Panzeri, Stefano ^a   Diamond, Mathew E ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decoding; Information theory; Neural coding; Population coding; Somatosensation; Spike patterns

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INFORMATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; SENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIBRISSA;

EID: 79956218999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16633563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsyn.2010.00017     Document Type: Article

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