Information coding and representation with
population codes.
Alex Pouget Peter Dayan Rich Zemel
Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 1 , 125-132.
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. In this article, 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 non-linear
mapping. More radical ideas about how population codes may
directly represent information about stimulus uncertainty are also
discussed.
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