Data Stories | Coding the visual world

See how Stanford electrical engineering student Amy Christensen used data from the Allen Brain Observatory to study how visual information is coded...

August 1, 2018

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See how Stanford electrical engineering student Amy Christensen used data from the Allen Brain Observatory to study how visual information is coded...

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Access her recently published research on BioRxiv: Running reduces firing but improves coding in rodent higher-order visual cortex.

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