How behavioral constraints may determine optimal sensory representations.

The sensory-triggered activity of a neuron is typically characterized in terms of a tuning curve, which describes the neuron's average response as a function of a parameter that characterizes a physical stimulus. What determines the shapes of tuning curves in a neuronal population? Previous the...

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Main Author: Emilio Salinas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-11-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1661681?pdf=render