Population code in mouse V1 facilitates readout of natural scenes through increased sparseness

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 851-857

  Froudarakis, Emmanouil ^a   Berens, Philipp ^a,b,c   Ecker, Alexander S ^a,b,c,d   Cotton, R James ^a   Sinz, Fabian H ^b,c   Yatsenko, Dimitri ^a   Saggau, Peter ^a,e   Bethge, Matthias ^b,c,d   Tolias, Andreas S ^a,b,e  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^e Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY VISUAL CORTEX; STIMULUS; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84901684880     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3707     Document Type: Article

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