It has been widely accepted that spiking neurons code information in their firing rates 1. A related assumption is that each neuron serves as an independent channel transmitting information from one ...

Throughout the central nervous system of a mammalian brain, spike times are the only events, which carry information about incoming stimuli, represent thoughts or drive motor behaviour. If we knew ...

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