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SUBMITTER: Mitchell DE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6312400 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mitchell Diana E DE Kwan Annie A Carriot Jerome J Chacron Maurice J MJ Cullen Kathleen E KE
eLife 20181218
It is commonly assumed that the brain's neural coding strategies are adapted to the statistics of natural stimuli. Specifically, to maximize information transmission, a sensory neuron's tuning function should effectively oppose the decaying stimulus spectral power, such that the neural response is temporally decorrelated (i.e. 'whitened'). However, theory predicts that the structure of neuronal variability also plays an essential role in determining how coding is optimized. Here, we provide expe ...[more]