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==Unary coding in biological networks==

New research has shown that unary coding is used in the neural circuits responsible for [[birdsong]] production.<ref>Fiete, I.R. and H.S. Seung, Neural network models of birdsong production, learning, and coding. New Encyclopediaof Neuroscience. Eds. L. Squire, T. Albright, F. Bloom, F. Gage, and N. Spitzer. Elsevier, 2007.</ref><ref>Moore J.M. et al., Motor pathway convergence predicts syllable repertoire size in oscine birds. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sc. USA 108: 16440-16445, 2011.</ref> The nucleus in the brain of the songbirds that plays a part in both the learning and the production of bird song is the HVC (high vocal center). The use of unary n biological networks is presumably due to the inherent simplicity of the coding. AnotherThe contributingway factorthe couldcoding beoccurs thein factbiological thatsystems unarycan codingalso providesbe seen as a certainform degreerobust ofor errorgeneralized correctionunary coding.<ref>PotluriKak, PS., Error correction capacity of unary coding. 2014.http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.7406 </ref>

Generalized unary coding. Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing. 2015. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00034-015-0120-7#page-1 </ref>

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