Determining the role of correlated firing in large populations of neurons using white noise and natural scene stimuli

Vision Research

Volumn 70, Issue , 2012, Pages 44-53

  Meytlis, Marsha ^a   Nichols, Zachary ^a   Nirenberg, Sheila ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlations; Decoding; Information; Noise correlation; Parallel processing; Population coding; Retinal ganglion cell; Spike trains; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SPIKE WAVE; WHITE NOISE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BAYES THEOREM; MACACA MULATTA; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84866443700     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.07.007     Document Type: Article

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