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The neuronal representation of information in the human brain
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Rolls, Edmund T. (2015) The neuronal representation of information in the human brain. Brain, 138 (11). pp. 3459-3462. ISSN 0006-8950
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brain/awv242
Abstract
The responses of single neurons provide evidence that is essential to understanding what information is encoded in a brain area, and how it is encoded, for the information conveyed by a single neuron is almost independent of that conveyed by others in the same population. The differences in the firing rate response profiles of single neurons to a set of stimuli or events encode most of the information about that stimulus or event. The representation is sparsely distributed, with neurons often having an approximately exponential firing rate distribution, with high firing rates to a few stimuli, and smaller and smaller responses to other stimuli in the set, and no response to most of the stimuli. It is in this way that information about particular stimuli is represented. For example, in the inferior temporal visual cortex, neurons encode in this manner which particular face or object is being shown (Rolls and Treves, 2011).
Item Type: | Book Review | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Brain | ||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||
ISSN: | 0006-8950 | ||||
Book Title: | Single neuron studies of the human brain : probing cognition | ||||
Editor: | Fried, Itzhak and Rutishauser, Ueli and Cerf, Moran and Kreiman, Gabriel | ||||
Official Date: | 14 August 2015 | ||||
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Volume: | 138 | ||||
Number: | 11 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 3459-3462 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1093/brain/awv242 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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