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Science 3 November 1995:
Vol. 270. no. 5237, pp. 756 - 757
DOI: 10.1126/science.270.5237.756
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Perspectives

David Ferster, Nelson Spruston

How does the brain code information? Ferster and Spruston weigh the evidence in favor of a rate code (that the rate of action-potential firing carries the key information) and a temporal code (in which the pattern of firing is crucial, not just the rate).

The authors are in the Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. E-mail: ferster@nwu.edu and spruston@nwu.edu


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