Noise in neural populations accounts for errors in working memory

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3632-3645

  Bays, Paul M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Divisive normalization; Neural gain; Poisson noise; Population coding; Resource; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; CURVE FITTING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MODEL; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERFORMANCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; WORKING MEMORY;

DIVISIVE NORMALIZATION; NEURAL GAIN; POISSON NOISE; POPULATION CODING; RESOURCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895487936     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3204-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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