WILLIAM SOFTKY

Refereed Publications

“Unsupervised Pixel-prediction,” William Softky, Advances in Neural Information Processing 8 MIT Press, p. 809-815 (1995).

A Comparison of Discharge Variability in vitro and in viva in Cat Visual

Cortical Neurons,” G. Hold, W. Softky, C. Koch, R. Douglas, J. Neurphysiol. in press (1996).

“Simple Codes vs. Efficient Codes,” William Softky, Current Opinion in Neurbiology 5, p. 239-247 (1995).

“Might Neuronal Spikes Permit a Binary Brain?” (letter), William Softky, Physics Today, 47, p. 11-13.

“Fine Analog Coding Minimizes Information Transmission,” William Softky, Neural Networks, (1996).

“Single Cell Models,” William Softky & Christof Koch, in Handbook of Neural Theory, ed. Michael Arbib, MIT Press (1995).

“Sub-millisecond Coincidence Detection in Active Dendritic Trees,” William Softky, Neuroscience 58, p. 13-41 (1994).

“Theoretical Mechanics of Biological Neural Networks” (

(book review), William Softky, Neural Networks 7, p. 853-856 (1994).

“The Highly Irregular Firing of Cortical Cells is Inconsistent with Temporal Integration of Small EPSPs, William Softky & Christof Koch, Journal of Neuroscierice 13, p. 334-350 (1993).

Cortical Cells Should Fire Regularly, But Do Not,” William Softky & Christof Koch, Neural Computation 4, 643-646 (1992).

“Correlations in High Dimensional or Asymmetric Data Sets: Hebbian Neuronal Processing,” William Softky and Daniel Kammen, Neural Networks 4, 337-347, 1991.

“CaCan Simple Cells Learn Curves? Hebbian Model in a Structured Environment,” William Softky & Daniel Kammen, Advances zn Neural Information Processing 2, 125-132, Morgan Kaufman (1990).

“Isotope Shift of 667.7 nm Transition in Atomic Argon,” D.E. Murnick, W.R. Softky,, and D.N. Stoneback, Physics Letters B 174, p. 238-240 (1986).

“Isotope Selective Laser Enhancement of the Li ± 112 Reaction,” E. Myers, D. Murnick, & W. Softky, Appl. Physics B 43, 247-251.