Coding and Decoding with Adapting Neurons: A Population Approach to the Peri-Stimulus Time Histogram

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Naud, Richard ^a   Gerstner, Wulfram ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECODING; FUNCTIONS; GRAPHIC METHODS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CODING AND DECODING; CODING PRINCIPLES; ENCODING AND DECODING; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; NEURON MODELING; SPIKE RESPONSE MODELS; SPIKING NEURONES; TEMPORAL CODING; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; TIME-DEPENDENT STIMULUS;

NEURONS;

EID: 84868154067     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002711     Document Type: Article

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