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LETTERS
Spatio-temporal correlations and visual signalling in a
complete neuronal population
Jonathan W. Pillow1
, Jonathon Shlens2
, Liam Paninski3
, Alexander Sher4
, Alan M. Litke4
, E. J. Chichilnisky2
& Eero P. Simoncelli5
Statistical dependencies in the responses of sensory neurons gov-
ern both the amount of stimulus information conveyed and the
means by which downstream neurons can extract it. Although a
variety of measurements indicate the existence of such
dependencies1­3
, their origin and importance for neural coding
are poorly understood. Here we analyse the functional significance
of correlated firing in a complete population of macaque parasol
retinal ganglion cells using a model of multi-neuron spike res-

Source: Andrzejak, Ralph Gregor - Departament de Tecnologia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Baraniuk, Richard G.- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
Lazar, Aurel A. - Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
Pillow, Jonathan - Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin

Collections: Biology and Medicine; Computer Technologies and Information Sciences; Engineering