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2.4 Neural Encoding: Variability We'll finish up this week's material by considering a final couple of model upgrades. Let's go back and stare at this data again. There are a couple of issues that we haven't yet addressed. One is that we modeled only a time bearing firing rate. And of course this data is in the form of spiked times. In what sense the precise patterns of these spike trains might ..

In the last section we argued that a good basic coding model for many neural systems is a combination of a linear filter, or feature, that extracts some component from the stimulus, and a nonlinear input-output function that maps the filtered stimulus onto the firing rate. Our goal in this section is to understand how to find the components of such a model. You'll be doing this for yourself in t..

1.6 Time to Network: Brain Areas and their Function Hello neuro adventurers. We're nearing the end of our safari through the land of neurobiology. I have my adventure hat on. Do you? In the last two lectures, we had close encounters with those wild creatures called neurons, and their close companions. The synapses. In this lecture we'll stop at a few tourist destinations in the nervous system. T..