Models of neuronal stimulus-response functions: Elaboration, estimation, and evaluation

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Meyer, Arne F ^a   Williamson, Ross S ^b,c   Linden, Jennifer F ^d,e   Sahani, Maneesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Neural coding; Receptive field; Sensory system

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; NERVE CELL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 85011101709     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2016.00109     Document Type: Review

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