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the representation of a quantity, such as movement direction, by the combined activity of many broadly tuned neurons rather than by one cell.

In neuroscience, population coding refers to the representation of a quantity, such as movement direction, by the combined activity of many broadly tuned neurons rather than by one cell. This meaning comes from Georgopoulos (1986) in Science.[1]

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References

Georgopoulos, A. P., Schwartz, A. B., & Kettner, R. E. (1986). Neuronal Population Coding of Movement Direction. Science, 233(4771), 1416-1419. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.3749885

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