The competing benefits of noise and heterogeneity in neural coding

Neural Computation

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1600-1623

  Hunsberger, Eric ^a   Scott, Matthew ^a   Eliasmith, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION THEORY; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84907152571     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/NECO_a_00621     Document Type: Letter

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