Neural Coding

Neural Coding

The general approach to the neural coding problem, In the years following the invention of the computer, an illustrated in Figure 1, was laid out by Mountcastle in idea that caused great excitement was that computers the 1960s. Psychophysical studies of a particular aspect might be made to mimic some of the brain’s most basic of perceptual behavior are followed by neurophysiologicognitive capac...

Neural Coding and Auditory

The long-term goal of this research is to understand the neural mechanisms that mediate the ability of normal-hearing people to understand speech and localize sounds in everyday acoustic environments comprising reverberation and competing sound sources. Our research has been primarily focused in three areas: (1) Effect of reverberation on the directional sensitivity and coding of amplitude enve...

Neural Pulse Coding

Neurons use action potentials to signal over long distances, as summarized in Chapter 1 by Gerstner. The all-or-none nature of the action potential means that it codes information by its presence or absence, but not by its size or shape. In this respect, an action potential can be considered a pulse. This is an important fact about how brains are built, but it is equally important as a theoreti...

Neural coding: linear models

In the first, the field is defined by a technique. In the second, it is defined by an idea. Let’s discuss these two definitions in more depth. Why use a computer to study the brain? The most compelling reason is the tor­ rential flow of data generated by neurophysiology experiments. Today it is common to simultaneously record the signals generated by tens of neurons in an awake behaving animal....

Laboratory of neural coding