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Information processing with population codes

Pouget, Alexandre, Dayan, Peter, Zemel, Richard·2000·Nature Reviews Neuroscience
DOI 10.1038/35039062
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Authors
Pouget, A., Dayan, P., & Zemel, R.
Venue
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2000-11
Volume
1
Issue
2
Pages
125-132
ISSN
  • 1471-003X (ISSN-L)
  • 1471-0048
DOI
10.1038/35039062
OpenAlex
W1503602982
Cited by
752
References
6
FWCI
0.58
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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