Low error discrimination using a correlated population code

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1069-1088

  Schwartz, Greg ^a   Macke, Jakob ^b   Amodei, Dario ^a   Tang, Hanlin ^a   Berry II, Michael J ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neural code; Retina

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ENTROPY; LATENT PERIOD; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SALAMANDER; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMBYSTOMA; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 84865065436     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00564.2011     Document Type: Article

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