The effect of correlations on the fisher information of population codes

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 167-173

  Yoon, Hyoungsoo ^a   Sompolinsky, Haim ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

FISHER INFORMATION; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NEURONAL ACTIVITIES; NEURONAL POPULATIONS; PAIRWISE CORRELATION; POPULATION CODING; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS;

NEURONS;

EID: 84899006028     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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