Independent-spike coding

Independent-spike coding

The independent-spike coding model of neuronal firing claims that each individual action potential, or "spike", is independent of each other spike within the spike train.

Contrast this with correlation coding.

ee also

*Rate coding
*Temporal coding
*Sparse coding
*Population coding

References

* Dayan P & Abbott LF. "Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems". Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press; 2001. ISBN 0-262-04199-5
* Rieke F, Warland D, de Ruyter van Steveninck R, Bialek W. "Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code". Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press; 1999. ISBN 0-262-68108-0


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