Abstract
Information is encoded in the brain by populations or clusters of
cells, rather than by single cells. This encoding strategy is known
as population coding. Here we review the standard use of population
codes for encoding and decoding information, and consider how population
codes can be used to support neural computations such as noise removal
and nonlinear mapping. More radical ideas about how population codes
may directly represent information about stimulus uncertainty are
also discussed.
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