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<!-- Image with unknown copyright status removed: [[Image:Distributed Neural Coding.jpg|thumb|400px|'''Figure 1. Distributed neural coding in colour vision'''. In 1802,[[Thomas Young]] introduced the concept of distributed neural coding in his classic [[trichromatic theory]] of colour vision. In his formulation, the combined response profile of only three retinal receptors ('''left'''), tuned to respond to a broad [[spectrum]] of light wavelength ('''right'''), can account for the representation of any color in the visible spectrum. P, Q, R, S, colour stimuli. ]] -->

'''Neural coding''' is a [[neuroscience]]-related field concerned with how [[sensory]] and other information is represented in the [[brain]] by [[neurons]]. The main goal of studying neural coding is to characterize the relationship between the [[Stimulus (physiology)|stimulus]] and the individual or ensemble neuronal responses and the relationship among electrical activity of the neurons in the ensemble <ref name="Brown">Brown EN, Kass RE, and Mitra PP. 2004. Multiple neural spike train data analysis: state-of-the-art and future challenges. ''Nature Neuroscience'' 7:456-61</ref>.

== Overview ==