Stimulus-dependent variability and noise correlations in cortical MT neurons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 32, 2013, Pages 13162-13167

  Ponce Alvarez, Adrián ^a   Thiele, Alexander ^b   Albright, Thomas D ^c   Stoner, Gene R ^c   Deco, Gustavo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICAL MIDDLE TEMPORAL NEURON; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84881445482     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1300098110     Document Type: Article

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