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A population code with added grandmothers?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Malcolm P. Young ,
Stefano Panzeri  and
Robert Robertson
Malcolm P. Young
Affiliation:
Neural Systems Group, Department of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdomm.p.young@ncl.ac.ukwww.psychology.ncl.ac.uk/neural_systems_group.html
Stefano Panzeri
Affiliation:
Neural Systems Group, Department of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdomm.p.young@ncl.ac.ukwww.psychology.ncl.ac.uk/neural_systems_group.html
Robert Robertson
Affiliation:
Neural Systems Group, Department of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdomm.p.young@ncl.ac.ukwww.psychology.ncl.ac.uk/neural_systems_group.html
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Abstract

Page's “localist” code, a population code with occasional, maximally firing elements, does not seem to us usefully or testably different from sparse population coding. Some of the evidence adduced by Page for his proposal is not actually evidence for it, and coding by maximal firing is challenged by lower firing observed in neuronal responses to natural stimuli.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , August 2000 , pp. 495 - 496
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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