Transmission of population-coded information

Neural Computation

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 391-407

  Renart, Alfonso ^a,b   van Rossum, Mark C W ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHAMPALIMAUD CENTRE FOR THE UNKNOWN   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; LETTER; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; NETWORK LAYERS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

A-CENTER; ENCODED INFORMATION; FISHER INFORMATION; INFORMATION LOSS; LAYERED NETWORK; NEURAL POPULATIONS; NEURONAL NOISE; PERFORMANCE; SHANNON INFORMATION; WATER-FILLING ALGORITHM;

NEURONS;

EID: 84856381794     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/NECO_a_00227     Document Type: Letter

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