Correlated Neuronal Discharges that Increase Coding Efficiency during Perceptual Discrimination
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Correlated Neuronal Discharges that Increase Coding Efficiency during Perceptual Discrimination
During a sensory discrimination task, the responses of multiple sensory neurons must be combined to generate a choice. The optimal combination of responses is determined both by their dependence on the sensory stimulus and by their cofluctuations across trials-that is, the noise correlations. Positively correlated noise is considered deleterious, because it limits the coding accuracy of populat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuron
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0896-6273
DOI: 10.1016/s0896-6273(03)00287-3