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Neural codes in early sensory areas maximize fitness

2021-05-11

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It has generally been presumed that sensory information encoded by a nervous system should be as accurate as its biological limitations allow. However, perhaps counter intuitively, accurate representations of sensory signals do not necessarily maximize the organism’s chances of survival. To test this hypothesis, we developed a unified normative framework for fitness-maximizing encoding by combining theoretical ins...

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Literature Corpus work: a26a2262-a835-5707-92e1-68ac13c2079b
DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.10.443388

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