Computing Complex Visual Features with Retinal Spike Times

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gütig, Robert ^a,b   Gollisch, Tim ^c   Sompolinsky, Haim ^b,d   Meister, Markus ^d,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; RETINA NERVE CELL; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURONS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SOFTWARE; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS; URODELA; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 84871773331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053063     Document Type: Article

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