The variable discharge of cortical neurons: implications for connectivity, computation, and information coding.

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Published in J Neurosci on May 15, 1998

Authors

M N Shadlen1, W T Newsome

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Regional Primate Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-7290, USA.

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