Grid cells generate an analog error-correcting code for singularly precise neural computation

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1330-1337

  Sreenivasan, Sameet ^a,b   Fiete, Ila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS;

EID: 80053227973     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2901     Document Type: Article

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