A quantitative analysis of information about past and present stimuli encoded by spikes of A1 neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1366-1380

  Klampfl, Stefan ^a,d   David, Stephen V ^b,c   Yin, Pingbo ^b   Shamma, Shihab A ^b   Maass, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KNOW CENTER   (Austria)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Awake ferrets; Data analysis; Information theory; Temporal integration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FERRET; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACHINE LEARNING; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FERRETS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84865830372     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00935.2011     Document Type: Article

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