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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Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2006-11-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1661681?pdf=render |