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Original Article

Quantifying variability in neural responses and its application for the validation of model predictions

Anne Hsu Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Alexander Borst Department of Systems and Computational Neurobiology, Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
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Frédéric E Theunissen Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Pages 91-109 | Received 06 Jun 2003, Accepted 03 Mar 2004, Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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