Neural Codes and Distributed Representations

Foundations of Neural Computation

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Edited by Laurence Abbott and Terrence J. Sejnowski

MIT Press

Due/Published August 1998, 345 pages, paper

ISBN 0262511002

Since its founding in 1989 by Terrence Sejnowski, Neutral Computation has become the leading journal in the field. Foundations of Neural Computations collects, by topic, the most significant papers that have appeared in the journal over the past nine years.

The present volume focuses on neural codes and representations, topics of broad interest to neuro-scientists and modelers. The topics addressed are: how neurons encode information through action potential firing patterns, how populations of neurons represent information, and how individual neurons use dendritic processing and biophysical properties of synapses to decode spike trains. The papers encompass a wide range of levels of investigation, from dendrites and neurons to networks and systems.