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What is the operating point? A discourse on perceptual organisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Simon R. Schultz
Simon R. Schultz
Affiliation:
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003 [email protected]/~schultz
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Abstract

The standard dogmatism ignores the fact that neural coding is extremely flexible, and the degree of “coarseness” versus “locality” of representation in real brains can be different under different task conditions. The real question that should be asked is: What is the operating point of neural coding under natural behavioural conditions? Several sources of evidence suggest that under natural conditions some degree of distribution of coding pervades the nervous system.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , August 2000 , pp. 491 - 492
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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