Table 2. Correlation between fundamental and information theoretic response properties.

Response property	Rate	RatePrecision	Precision	PrecisionRate
Information rate	0.94	0.91	−0.58	0.23
Coding efficiency	0.72	0.68	−0.37	0.23
Encoding window	−0.83	−0.86	0.36	−0.51
Latency	−0.71	−0.45	0.69	0.40

Spearman rank correlation. Firing precision is the standard deviation of the first spike after a velocity transition. All p values were smaller than 0.01 (n = 325).