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A Fast and Simple Population Code for Orientation in Primate V1

Philipp Berens, Alexander S. Ecker, R. James Cotton, Wei Ji Ma, Matthias Bethge and Andreas S. Tolias
Journal of Neuroscience 1 August 2012, 32 (31) 10618-10626; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1335-12.2012
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1335-12.2012
PubMed 
22855811
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History 
  • Received March 19, 2012
  • Revision received May 3, 2012
  • Accepted May 24, 2012
  • First published August 1, 2012.
  • Version of record published August 1, 2012.
Copyright & Usage 
Copyright © 2012 the authors 0270-6474/12/3210618-09$15.00/0 This article is freely available online through the J Neurosci Open Choice option.

Author Information

  1. Philipp Berens1,2,3,4,
  2. Alexander S. Ecker1,2,3,4,
  3. R. James Cotton4,
  4. Wei Ji Ma4,
  5. Matthias Bethge1,2,3, and
  6. Andreas S. Tolias2,4,5,6
  1. 1Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany,
  2. 2Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Tübingen and
  3. 3Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tübingen, Germany,
  4. 4Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, and
  5. 5Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas 77030, and
  6. 6Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005
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Author contributions

  1. Author contributions: P.B. and A.S.T. designed research; P.B., A.S.E., and A.S.T. performed research; R.J.C., W.J.M., and M.B. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; P.B. analyzed data; P.B., A.S.E., and A.S.T. wrote the paper.

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Disclosures

    • Received March 19, 2012.
    • Revision received May 3, 2012.
    • Accepted May 24, 2012.
  • This work was partially supported by the German National Academic Foundation (P.B.); by the German Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology through the Bernstein Award (FKZ 01GQ0601) (M.B.) and the Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience (FKZ 01GQ1002); the German Excellency Initiative through the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience Tübingen (EXC307); the Max Planck Society; National Eye Institute–National Institutes of Health Grant R01 EY018847 (A.S.T.); The Arnold and Mable Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award (A.S.T.); and The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience Scholar Award (A.S.T.). We thank M. Subramaniyan, T. Shinn, and D. Murray for technical assistance.

  • Correspondence should be addressed to either of the following: Philipp Berens, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Ottfried-Müller-Straße 25, 72076 Tübingen, Germany, philipp{at}bethgelab.org; or Andreas S. Tolias, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, One Baylor Plaza, S553, Houston, TX 77030, astolias{at}bcm.edu

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Philipp Berens, Alexander S. Ecker, R. James Cotton, Wei Ji Ma, Matthias Bethge, Andreas S. Tolias
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