This study explores the nature of population coding in sensory cortex by applying
information theoretic analyses to neuron pairs recorded simultaneously from rat barrel …

Computational analyses have begun to elucidate which components of somatosensory
cortical population activity may encode basic stimulus features. Recent results from rat barrel …

The present study asks in what way the activity of a neuronal population responding to a
sensory stimulus could be most efficiently decoded, or 'read off', by the target neurons. A …

Although the timing of single spikes is known to code for time-varying features of a sensory
stimulus, it remains unclear whether time is also exploited in the neuronal coding of the …

The exquisite modular anatomy of the rat somatosensory system makes it an excellent
model to test the potential coding strategies used to discriminate the location of a tactile …

Rats use their facial vibrissae (“whiskers”) to locate and identify objects. To learn about the
neural coding of contact between whiskers and objects, we investigated the representation …

Computational studies are challenging the intuitive view that neurons with broad tuning
curves are necessarily less discriminative than neurons with sharp tuning curves. In the …

From the perspective of neural coding, the considerable trial-to-trial variability in the
responses of neurons to sensory stimuli is puzzling. Trial-to-trial response variability is …

Cortical circuits encode sensory stimuli through the firing of neuronal ensembles, and also
produce spontaneous population patterns in the absence of sensory drive. This population …

The brain is composed of billions of neurons, the elementary units of neuronal information
processing. The neocortex, which is critical to most higher brain functions, is a highly …