Synergy from silence in a combinatorial neural code

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 44, 2011, Pages 15732-15741

  Schneidman, Elad ^a   Puchalla, Jason L ^c   Segev, Ronen ^f   Harris, Robert A ^b   Bialek, William ^c,d   Berry II, Michael J ^b,e  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b Department of Molecular Biology ^*  (Israel)

^c Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics   (Israel)

^d The Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics   (Israel)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; SALAMANDER; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 80155137536     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0301-09.2011     Document Type: Article

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