Retinal ganglion cells act largely as independent encoders
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Summary
It is found that more than 90% of the information about the stimuli can be obtained from the cells when their correlated firing is ignored, which indicates that ganglion cells act largely independently to encode information, which greatly simplifies the problem of decoding their activity.
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- article
- Published
- 2001-06-07
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- 318
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- 31
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Keywords
Retina, Neuroscience, Retinal waves, Visual cortex, Encoding (memory)
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