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SUBMITTER: Sharpee TO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2562720 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature 20060201 7079
Sensory neuroscience seeks to understand how the brain encodes natural environments. However, neural coding has largely been studied using simplified stimuli. In order to assess whether the brain's coding strategy depends on the stimulus ensemble, we apply a new information-theoretic method that allows unbiased calculation of neural filters (receptive fields) from responses to natural scenes or other complex signals with strong multipoint correlations. In the cat primary visual cortex we compare ...[more]