Reading spike timing without a clock: Intrinsic decoding of spike trains

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1637, 2014, Pages

  Panzeri, Stefano ^a,b   Ince, Robin A A ^a   Diamond, Mathew E ^c   Kayser, Christoph ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

^d Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decoding; Information theory; Neural code; Oscillations; Sensation; Spike patterns

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROLOGY; OSCILLATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIGNALING; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DECODING; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; NERVE CELL CODE; OSCILLATIONS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE PATTERNS; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

DECODING; INFORMATION THEORY; NEURAL CODE; OSCILLATIONS; SENSATION; SPIKE PATTERNS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84892527633     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0467     Document Type: Review

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