Spiking activity propagation in neuronal networks: reconciling different perspectives on neural coding

• Published in: Nature reviews. Neuroscience Vol. 11; no. 9; pp. 615 - 627
• Main Authors: Kumar, Arvind, Rotter, Stefan, Aertsen, Ad
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.09.2010; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/378/116/1925; 631/378/116/2395; 631/378/1697; Action Potentials; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Animals; Behavioral Sciences; Biological and medical sciences; Biological Techniques; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Brain; Central nervous system; Electrophysiology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects. Models. Methods; Humans; Hypotheses; Information processing; Neural networks; Neural Networks (Computer); Neural Pathways; Neural Pathways - physiology; Neural transmission; Neurobiology; Neurons; Neurons - physiology; Neurosciences; Physiological aspects; Propagation; review-article; Vertebrates: nervous system and sense organs; Germany; Dichotomy; Propagation; Coding; Central nervous system; Attention; Strategy; Models; Review; Neural network; Feedforward; Encephalon

Key Points One of the central problems in neuroscience is the characterization and understanding of the neural code. In 1968 Perkel and Bullock defined four key functions for a candidate neural code: stimulus representation, interpretation, transformation and transmission. Although the first three h...