Computation with a Number of Neurons

An essential feature of neural information processing in the brain is that a stimulus is not represented by the activity of a single neuron but rather by the joint activities of a number of them. Such a coding strategy is called population coding. This paper reviews the recent progress on the understanding of computational properties of population codes, with emphasis on how to implement a hierarchical Bayesian decoding procedure in a neural circuit.

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