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Neural Coding Theory

A topic within Computational Neuroscience, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Neuroscience.

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The Impulses Produced by Sensory Nerve Endings

Edgar Adrian

Shows that a sensory nerve fibre signals stimulus intensity by its rate of firing rather than by any change in impulse size, establishing rate coding as a basic principle of neural communication.

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Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code

Fred Rieke, David Warland, Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck & William Bialek

Argues neural spike trains should be analysed as a code to be decoded using information theory, rather than described only by an averaged firing rate.

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Reading on Neural Coding Theory

The Impulses Produced by Sensory Nerve Endings

Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code

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