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We examine several ways to study representation of external events by a population of neurons. It is useful in the laboratory to consider this as a clustering problem, but it is not clear whether and how the brain accomplishes a similar result. In particular there is a problem in selecting which neurons are to be included in the population analysis.
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Gerstein, G.L., Gochin, P.M. (1992). Neuronal Population Coding and the Elephant. In: Aertsen, A., Braitenberg, V. (eds) Information Processing in the Cortex. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49967-8_7
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