Talk:Efficient coding hypothesis

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This topic is being edited as an assignment in an undergraduate neurobiology course. The course is participating in the Wikipedia Education Program. The revised article will be posted by March 24, 2014.Iutschig (talk) 22:54, 18 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note for the reviewers: The efficient coding hypothesis had a few review articles, but it is best explained by actual experimental results and procedures. Therefore, we included primary sources in order to give readers an understanding of how coding of natural image statistics has actually been observed in real neurons. Iutschig (talk) 14:57, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Secondary Review: Overall, I think you did a fantastic job explaining the efficient coding hypothesis as well as the criticisms of the hypothesis. These two sections were my favorite parts because you methodologically explained what and why. I do have a few recommendations to help improve your article. First, I would suggest adding in a few pictures. Looking on the WikiCommons is a great place to get started and you don’t have to worry about copyright issues. I think a picture of a basic neuron and its structure would be useful for your article. A picture of an action potential would also be interesting to look at, plus it would break up some of the text heavy areas. Second, I saw a few references (in the evolution section and the natural images and statistics section) where the author’s names were placed in parentheses after the sentence. I would recommend either using the researcher’s names in the sentence or using the “add a source” icon to put in a superscript. One of my favorite parts of the article was the last section title biomedical applications. Is there information about how changes in the design of the cochlear implant could increase speech intelligibility? I think it is awesome that it can do that, but I am curious to learn more about how! I think that could be interesting for readers (if there is even information available about that topic). Overall, I think this article sounds very good! I am just offering a few suggestions about minor parts of your article. Great work! KPhillips13 (talk) 02:24, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]