Summary: COORDINATE TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE
VISUAL SYSTEM: HOW TO GENERATE GAIN
FIELDS AND WHAT TO COMPUTE WITH THEM
Emilio Salinas
Computational Neurobiology Laboratory
The Salk Institute
10010 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla CA 92037
e-mail: emilio@salk.edu
and
L. F. Abbott
Volen Center for Complex Systems
and
Department of Biology
Brandeis University
Waltham MA 02454-9110
e-mail: abbott@brandeis.edu
Introduction
Studies of population coding, which explore how the activity of ensembles of
neurons represent the external world, normally focus on the accuracy and reliabil-

Source: Abbott, Laurence - Center for Neurobiology and Behavior & Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University

Collections: Biology and Medicine