The Essential Complexity of Auditory Receptive Fields

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Thorson, Ivar L ^a   Liénard, Jean ^b   David, Stephen V ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); IMPULSE RESPONSE; NEURONS; PARAMETERIZATION;

AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEMS; ENCODINGS; FIELD ARCHITECTURES; FINITE-IMPULSE RESPONSE; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; PERFORMANCE; PROPERTY; RECEPTIVE FIELDS; SENSORY NEURONS;

FIR FILTERS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RECEPTIVE FIELD; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MACHINE LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PREDICTION; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPECTRO TEMPORAL RECEPTIVE FIELD; ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEARING; MUSTELA PUTORIUS FURO; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FERRETS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84953302346     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004628     Document Type: Article

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