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The idea that neurones transmit information using a rate code is extremely entrenched in the neuroscience community. The vast majority of neurophysiological studies simply describe neural responses in terms of firing rate, and while studies using Peri-Stimulus Time Histograms (PSTHs) are fairly common, only rarely does one get to see the underlying spikes in the form of a raster display. Even rarer are studies that provide information about how spikes are generated across a population of neurones.
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Thorpe, S., Gautrais, J. (1998). Rank Order Coding. In: Bower, J.M. (eds) Computational Neuroscience. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4831-7_19
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