Quantifying the signals contained in heterogeneous neural responses and determining their relationships with task performance

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1584-1598

  Pagan, Marino ^a   Rust, Nicole C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Orthonormal basis; Signal modulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; HAPLORHINI; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; MODULATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; RETINA IMAGE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HAPLORHINI; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84905830416     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00260.2014     Document Type: Article

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