Partitioning neuronal variability

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 858-865

  Goris, Robbe L T ^a   Movshon, J Anthony ^a   Simoncelli, Eero P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; ATTENTION; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MACACA; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEURONAL VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPIKE; STIMULUS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84901592897     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3711     Document Type: Article

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