Temporal coding: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 15:29, 25 April 2012

Revision as of 21:59, 29 April 2012

Line 1:

{{Merge to|Neural codingCoding|discuss=Talk:Neural coding#Merger possibilities|date=July 2010}}

'''Temporal coding''' is a type of [[neural coding]] in which a neuron encodes information through the precise timing of [[action potential]]s, or spikes, on a millisecond time scale. There is no universal definition of temporal coding; almost any coding scheme that is not [[neural coding#Rate coding|rate coding]] may be referred to as a temporal code. However, distinctions have been made to differentiate the precise timing of spikes in a single neuron which encodes information about a stimulus from synchronized firing of neurons within a localized area. The latter is sometimes referred to as [[correlation coding]].<ref>Dayan P, Abbott LF. ''Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press; 2001. p. 35. ISBN 0-262-04199-5</ref>