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List of works by William Bialek

A sensory source for motor variation

scientific article published on September 2005

Adaptation of retinal processing to image contrast and spatial scale

scientific article published in Nature

Adaptive rescaling maximizes information transmission

scientific article published in June 2000

Ambiguous Model Learning Made Unambiguous with 1/f Priors

scientific article published in January 2004

An Information Theoretic Approach to the Functional Classification of Neurons

scientific article published in January 2003

Analog Computation at a Critical Point: A Novel Function for Neuronal Oscillations?

Analyzing neural responses to natural signals: maximally informative dimensions

scientific article published in February 2004

Are Biological Systems Poised at Criticality?

article

Coarse Graining, Fixed Points, and Scaling in a Large Population of Neurons

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Collective Behavior of Place and Non-place Neurons in the Hippocampal Network

scientific article

Complexity of generic biochemical circuits: topology versus strength of interactions

scientific article published on 6 December 2016

Complexity through nonextensivity

article

Computation in a Single Neuron: Hodgkin and Huxley Revisited

scientific article published on August 1, 2003

Contraction of glycerinated muscle fibers as a function of the ATP concentration

scientific article published on November 1, 1979

Cooperativity, sensitivity, and noise in biochemical signaling

scientific article published on 23 June 2008

Diffusion and scaling during early embryonic pattern formation

scientific article

Diffusion, dimensionality, and noise in transcriptional regulation

scientific article published on 04 May 2009

Dimensionality and dynamics in the behavior of C. elegans

scientific article

Do vibrational spectroscopies uniquely describe protein dynamics? The case for myoglobin

scientific article

Efficiency and ambiguity in an adaptive neural code

scientific article published in August 2001

Emergence of long timescales and stereotyped behaviors in Caenorhabditis elegans

scientific article

Entropic effects in a nonequilibrium system: Flocks of birds

scientific article published on 23 May 2016

Entropy and Inference, Revisited

Entropy and Information in Neural Spike Trains

scholarly article from 'Physical Review Letters' published in 1998

Entropy and information in neural spike trains: progress on the sampling problem.

scientific article

Extending the dynamic range of transcription factor action by translational regulation

scientific article published on 04 February 2016

Field Theories for Learning Probability Distributions

scientific article published in December 1996

From modes to movement in the behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans

scientific article

Geometric Clustering Using the Information Bottleneck Method

scientific article published in January 2004

How many clusters? An information-theoretic perspective

scientific article published in December 2004

Information Processing in Living Systems

scholarly article from 'Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics' published in 2016

Information capacity of genetic regulatory elements

scientific article published on 21 July 2008

Information flow and optimization in transcriptional regulation

scholarly article

Information-based clustering.

scientific article

Introductory science and mathematics education for 21st-Century biologists

scientific article published in February 2004

Inverse spin glass and related maximum entropy problems

scientific article published on 10 September 2014

Learning Continuous Distributions: Simulations With Field Theoretic Priors

Macroscopic T nonconservation: Prospects for a new experiment

scientific article published on 01 April 1986

Mapping the stereotyped behaviour of freely moving fruit flies.

scientific article

Maximally Informative Dimensions: Analyzing Neural Responses to Natural Signals

scientific article published in January 2003

Maximally informative "stimulus energies" in the analysis of neural responses to natural signals

scientific article

Maximum entropy models for antibody diversity

scientific article

Morphogenesis at criticality

scientific article published on 10 February 2014

Multiple Timescales of Adaptation in a Neural Code

Naturalistic stimuli increase the rate and efficiency of information transmission by primary auditory afferents

scientific article published on 01 December 1995

Network information and connected correlations

scientific article published on 02 December 2003

Neural Coding of Natural Stimuli: Information at Sub-Millisecond Resolution

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Neural coding of natural stimuli: information at sub-millisecond resolution

scientific article

Neural coding of natural stimuli: information at sub-millisecond resolution

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Neural coding of naturalistic motion stimuli

scientific article

Neural decision boundaries for maximal information transmission

scientific article

Non-Boltzmann Dynamics in Networks of Spiking Neurons

scientific article published in January 1990

Occam factors and model independent Bayesian learning of continuous distributions

scientific article published on 24 January 2002

On the application of information theory to neural spike trains

scientific article published on January 1, 1998

Optimal Decoding of Cellular Identities in a Genetic Network

scientific article published on 31 January 2019

Optimal Filtering in the Salamander Retina

scientific article published in January 1991

Optimal Manifold Representation of Data: An Information Theoretic Approach

scientific article published in January 2004

Optimal Sampling of Natural Images: A Design Principle for the Visual System

Optimizing information flow in small genetic networks.

scientific article published on 29 September 2009

Optimizing information flow in small genetic networks. II. Feed-forward interactions

scientific article published on 06 April 2010

Optimizing information flow in small genetic networks. III. A self-interacting gene.

scientific article

PCA meets RG.

scientific article published on 27 March 2017

Perspectives on theory at the interface of physics and biology

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

Physical limits to biochemical signaling

scientific article

Physical limits to sensation and perception

scientific article published on January 1987

Positional information, in bits

scientific article published on 02 October 2013

Predictability and hierarchy in Drosophila behavior

scientific article published on 04 October 2016

Predictability, Complexity, and Learning

scientific article published on November 1, 2001

Predictive information in a sensory population.

scientific article

Probing the limits to positional information

scientific article

Protein dynamics and reaction rates: mode-specific chemistry in large molecules?

scientific article

QnAs with William Bialek

scientific article published on 25 September 2013

Quantum and classical dynamics in biochemical reactions

scientific article

Quantum noise and the threshold of hearing

scientific article published in February 1985

Random switching and optimal processing in the perception of ambiguous signals

scientific article published on 01 April 1995

Reading a Neural Code

scientific article published in January 1990

Reading a neural code

scientific article published in June 1991

Reliability and information transmission in spiking neurons

scientific article published on November 1, 1992

Reproducibility and variability in neural spike trains

scientific article published in March 1997

Response: Can We Fit All of the Data?

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Searching for collective behavior in a large network of sensory neurons

scientific article

Searching for collective behavior in a small brain

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Searching for simplicity in the analysis of neurons and behavior

scientific article

Social interactions dominate speed control in poising natural flocks near criticality

scientific article

Spike timing and the coding of naturalistic sounds in a central auditory area of songbirds

scientific article published in January 2002

Stability and Noise in Biochemical Switches

Stability and nuclear dynamics of the bicoid morphogen gradient

scientific article

Statistical Reliability of a Blowfly Movement-Sensitive Neuron

scientific article published in January 1992

Statistical mechanics and invariant perception

scientific article published on 01 February 1987

Statistical mechanics for natural flocks of birds

scientific article published on 16 March 2012

Statistical mechanics of letters in words.

scientific article published on 25 June 2010

Statistical properties of spike trains: universal and stimulus-dependent aspects

scientific article published on 20 September 2002

Statistical thermodynamics of natural images

scientific article published on 02 January 2013

Statistics of Natural Images: Scaling in the Woods

scientific article published in January 1994

Statistics of natural images: Scaling in the woods

scientific article published on 01 August 1994

Synergy from silence in a combinatorial neural code.

scientific article

Synergy in a neural code

scientific article published in July 2000

Synergy, redundancy, and independence in population codes

scientific article (publication date: 17 December 2003)

Temporal filtering in retinal bipolar cells. Elements of an optimal computation?

scientific article

The Neural Code for Motor Control in the Cerebellum and Oculomotor Brainstem.

scientific article published on 12 November 2014

The emergence of long timescales and stereotyped behaviors in C. elegans

scientific article

The information content of receptive fields

scientific article

The neural basis for combinatorial coding in a cortical population response.

scientific article published in December 2008

The role of input noise in transcriptional regulation

scientific article

Thermodynamics and signatures of criticality in a network of neurons

scientific article

Time course of information about motion direction in visual area MT of macaque monkeys.

scientific article published on March 2004

Time course of precision in smooth-pursuit eye movements of monkeys

scientific article published on March 2007

Tunneling spectroscopy of a macroscopic variable

scientific article published on 01 January 1987

Understanding the Efficiency of Human Perception

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Universality and Individuality in a Neural Code

Vibrationally enhanced tunneling as a mechanism for enzymatic hydrogen transfer

scientific article published on September 1, 1992

Virtual intermediates in photosynthetic electron transfer

scientific article published on August 1, 1992

Weak pairwise correlations imply strongly correlated network states in a neural population

scientific article

What Can a Single Neuron Compute?