A new perceptual bias reveals suboptimal population decoding of sensory responses.

Several studies have reported optimal population decoding of sensory responses in two-alternative visual discrimination tasks. Such decoding involves integrating noisy neural responses into a more reliable representation of the likelihood that the stimuli under consideration evoked the observed resp...

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Main Authors: Tom Putzeys, Matthias Bethge, Felix Wichmann, Johan Wagemans, Robbe Goris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3325184?pdf=render