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Electrophysiological studies in various sensory systems of different species show that many neurons involved in object localization have large receptive fields. This seems to contradict the high sensory resolution and the behavioral precision observed in localization experiments. Assuming a coarse coding mechanism, the resolution obtained by an ensemble of neurons is analytically calculated as a function of receptive field size. It is shown that particularly large receptive fields yield a high resolution.
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Received: 7 January 1996 / Accepted in revised form: 7 January 1997
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Eurich, C., Schwegler, H. Coarse coding: calculation of the resolution achieved by a population of large receptive field neurons. Biol Cybern 76, 357–363 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004220050349
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004220050349