Demixing population activity in higher cortical areas

Neural responses in higher cortical areas often display a baffling complexity. In animals performing behavioral tasks, single neurons will typically encode several parameters simultaneously, such as stimuli, rewards, decisions, etc. When dealing with this large heterogeneity of responses, cell...

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Main Author: Christian K Machens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2010.00126/full