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ArticleNature2020

Fundamental bounds on the fidelity of sensory cortical coding.

Oleg I Rumyantsev, Jérôme A Lecoq, Oscar Hernandez, Yanping Zhang, Joan Savall, Radosław Chrapkiewicz, Jane Li, Hongkui Zeng, Surya Ganguli, Mark J Schnitzer

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Article in Nature, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 121 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

121 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Oleg I RumyantsevJames H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering & Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. rumyantsev.oleg@gmail.com.
Jérôme A LecoqJames H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering & Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0131-0938
Oscar HernandezJames H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering & Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7578-7870
Yanping ZhangJames H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering & Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Joan SavallJames H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering & Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Radosław ChrapkiewiczJames H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering & Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9923-4274
Jane LiJames H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering & Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Hongkui ZengAllen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0326-5878
Surya GanguliJames H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering & Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. sganguli@stanford.edu.
Mark J SchnitzerJames H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering & Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. mschnitz@stanford.edu.

Funding

Transgenic mice and multiplexed, multi-beam instrumentation for large-scale optical experiments on brain states and ensemble cellular dynamics in behaving animalsUF1NS107610 · NINDS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI SCHNITZER, MARK J, ZENG, HONGKUI · 2018 to 2018
$2.9M
A transgenic platform to produce genetic tools for monitoring & manipulating plasR01DA028298 · NIDA · ALLEN INSTITUTE · PI ZENG, HONGKUI · 2009 to 2013
$2.2M
Large-scale dual-color two-photon calcium imaging in awake behaving animalsR24NS098519 · NINDS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI SCHNITZER, MARK J · 2016 to 2019
$1.0M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA028298NINDS NIH HHS R24 NS098519NINDS NIH HHS UF1 NS107610
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How the brain processes information accurately despite stochastic neural activity is a longstanding question

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AnimalsFemaleMaleMicePhotic StimulationSensory Receptor CellsStochastic ProcessesVisual AcuityVisual Cortex

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