Understanding how populations of neurons encode information is the challenge faced by
researchers in the field of neural coding. Focusing on the many mysteries and marvels of the …

Neural Coding: The enigma of the brain: Current Biology Skip to Main Content Advertisement
Current Biology This journal offers authors two options (open access or subscription) to publish …

While recognizing a face or kicking a ball may seem to be easy tasks for us, they still
constitute challenging problems for even the most sophisticated computer algorithms …

A key issue in understanding the neural code for an ensemble of neurons is the nature and
strength of correlations between neurons and how these correlations are related to the …

The principle function of the central nervous system is to represent and transform information
and thereby mediate appropriate decisions and behaviors. The cerebral cortex is one of the …

How is sensory information encoded by the patterns of action potentials emitted by
ensembles of neurons? Computational methods have recently been applied to this …

Highlights•Correlations re-distribute the noise in the neural population-
response.•Information is limited when signal and correlated noise overlap.•Heterogeneity …

We describe the results of quantitative information theoretic analyses of neural encoding,
particularly in the primate visual, olfactory, taste, hippocampal, and orbitofrontal cortex. Most …

The aim of this article is to review some basic principles of neural coding, with an emphasis
on mechanisms of stimulus representation in ensembles of neurons. The theory of “across …

The encoding of sensory information by populations of cortical neurons forms the basis for
perception but remains poorly understood. To understand the constraints of cortical …