The Bayesian brain: The role of uncertainty in neural coding and computation

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 712-719

  Knill, David C ^a   Pouget, Alexandre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL FUNCTION; CODING; COGNITION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 8444239052     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2004.10.007     Document Type: Article

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