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Population Coding

Population coding is a computational principle in which the collective activity pattern of a neuronal ensemble uniquely represents a specific stimulus or cognitive state, distinguishing it from alternative coding schemes by relying on distributed activity across multiple neurons rather than single-cell specificity.

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Emergence of simple-cell receptive field properties by learning a sparse code for natural images

Bruno A. Olshausen, David J. Field · Nature · 1996 · 5.8K citations

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Neuronal Population Coding of Movement Direction

Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, Andrew B. Schwartz, Ronald E. Kettner · Science · 1986 · 3.2K citations

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Dynamics of the Hippocampal Ensemble Code for Space

Matthew A. Wilson, Bruce L. McNaughton · Science · 1993 · 2.4K citations

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Invariant visual representation by single neurons in the human brain

Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Leila Reddy, Gabriel Kreiman et al. · Nature · 2005 · 2K citations · Full text

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Weak pairwise correlations imply strongly correlated network states in a neural population

Elad Schneidman, Michael J. Berry, Ronen Segev et al. · Nature · 2006 · 1.9K citations · Full text

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    Stefano Panzeri

    Italian Institute of Technology, Italy

    20 publications · 2.4K citations

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  2. MB
    Matthias Bethge

    University of Tübingen, Germany

    15 publications · 1.9K citations

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  3. WB
    William Bialek

    Princeton University, United States

    12 publications · 4.7K citations

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    Michael J. Berry

    Princeton University, United States

    12 publications · 3K citations

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  5. AP
    Alexandre Pouget

    University of Geneva, Switzerland

    13 publications · 2.7K citations

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  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    33 h-index

    90 publications

    12.1K citations

  2. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Chevy Chase, United States

    31 h-index

    81 publications

    11.9K citations

  3. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    30 h-index

    99 publications

    25.1K citations

  4. New York University

    New York, United States

    26 h-index

    62 publications

    6.6K citations

  5. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    26 h-index

    94 publications

    17.7K citations

  6. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    21 h-index

    85 publications

    18K citations

  7. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    19 h-index

    54 publications

    8.9K citations

  8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    19 h-index

    60 publications

    10.4K citations

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  1. Journal of Neuroscience

    79 publications · 11.2K citations

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  2. Neuron

    51 publications · 9.5K citations

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  3. Nature Neuroscience

    38 publications · 10.1K citations

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  4. Neural Computation

    57 publications · 5.9K citations

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  5. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 36 publications · 5K citations

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