Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Webb TJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3169549 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Webb Tristan J TJ Rolls Edmund T ET Deco Gustavo G Feng Jianfeng J
PloS one 20110908 9
Representations in the cortex are often distributed with graded firing rates in the neuronal populations. The firing rate probability distribution of each neuron to a set of stimuli is often exponential or gamma. In processes in the brain, such as decision-making, that are influenced by the noise produced by the close to random spike timings of each neuron for a given mean rate, the noise with this graded type of representation may be larger than with the binary firing rate distribution that is ...[more]