Everything about Efficient coding hypothesis

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Efficient coding hypothesisA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Treaty Occupationay ToxicologyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: An Efficient Coding Hypothesis Links Sparsity and Selectivity of Neural ResponsesCited 17 times
4. Go sideways: Surround suppressionA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Neural codingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• An Efficient Coding Hypothesis Links Sparsity and Selectivity of Neural Responses

  Florian Blättler, Richard H. R. Hahnloser · 2011 · PLoS ONE · 17 citations

📚 Books worth reading

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• Intelligent Science and Intelligent Data EngineeringJian Yang · 2013
• Advances in Multimedia Information Processing – PCM 2012Weisi Lin · 2012
• Visual object recognitionKristen Lorraine Grauman · 2011
• An investigation of two novel genes associated with Wnt signalling in Drosophila melanogasterOlivier Hagens · 2000

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