Isometric coding of spiking haptic signals by peripheral somatosensory neurons

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6691 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 528-536

  Brasselet, Romain ^a   Johansson, Roland S ^b   Arleo, Angelo ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

information theory; isometric mapping; mechanoreceptors; microneurography recordings; spike train metrics; Temporal coding

Indexed keywords

ISOMETRIC MAPPING; MECHANORECEPTORS; MICRONEUROGRAPHY RECORDINGS; SPIKE-TRAIN METRICS; TEMPORAL CODING; SPIKE TRAIN;

DECODING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION THEORY; COMPUTATION THEORY; NEURONS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 79957931446     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21501-8_66     Document Type: Conference Paper

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