@inproceedings{5b2acc1076d744c9aeb1ec3aba919d66,
title = "Reading a Neural Code",
abstract = "Traditional methods of studying neural coding characterize the encoding of known stimuli in average neural responses. Organisms face nearly the opposite task-decoding short segments of a spike train to extract information about an unknown, time-varying stimulus. Here we present strategies for characterizing the neural code from the point of view of the organism, culminating in algorithms for real-time stimulus reconstruction based on a single sample of the spike train. These methods are applied to the design and analysis of experiments on an identified movement-sensitive neuron in the fly visual system. As far as we know this is the first instance in which a direct {"}reading{"} of the neural code has been accomplished.",
author = "William Bialek and Fred Rieke and \{de Ruyter van Steveninck\}, \{R. R.\} and David Warland",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 1989 Neural information processing systems foundation. All rights reserved.; 2nd Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 1989 ; Conference date: 27-11-1989 Through 30-11-1989",
year = "1989",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems",
publisher = "Neural information processing systems foundation",
pages = "36--43",
editor = "Touretzky, \{David S.\}",
booktitle = "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 2, NIPS 1989",
}