Second Order Phase Transition in Neural Rate Coding: Binary Encoding is Optimal for Rapid Signal Transmission

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 4-

  Bethge, Matthias ^a   Rotermund, David ^a   Pawelzik, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECODING; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEUROLOGY; SIGNAL ENCODING;

ASYMPTOTIC OPTIMAL PARABOLIC FUNCTION; BINARY ENCODING; HEAVISIDE FUNCTION; MEAN SQUARE ESTIMATOR; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE RECONSTRUCTION; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARED ERROR; NEURAL RATE CODING; OPTIMAL TUNING FUNCTIONS; POISSON NOISE; RAPID SIGNAL TRANSMISSION;

BIOCOMMUNICATIONS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84930067410     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.088104     Document Type: Article

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