When and why noise correlations are important in neural decoding

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 45, 2013, Pages 17921-17936

  Eyherabide, Hugo Gabriel ^a,b   Samengo, Ines ^a  

^a CENTRO ATÓMICO BARILOCHE   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DECODING ERROR; ERROR; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEURAL DECODING; NOISE CORRELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84887089826     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0357-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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