Unifying the theories of neural information encoding

(Institute of Science and Technology Austria) Our eyes are flooded with visual information, but the neurons in our eyes have certain constraints. Thus, how do neurons select what to extract and send on to the brain? Until now neuroscientists have used several different theories to predict what neurons will do. Now, scientists have developed a framework that unites the previous theories as special cases, and enables them to make predictions about types of neurons not previously described by any theory.
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