Emerging principles of population coding: In search for the neural code

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 25, Issue , 2014, Pages 140-148

  Shamir, Maoz ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CODING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION; LEARNING; NERVE CELL CODE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NOISE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ANIMAL; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; NEURONS;

EID: 84893366373     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2014.01.002     Document Type: Review

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