Neural coding
From Ilya Nemenman
This is one of the Projects of Ilya Nemenman's lab. Email Ilya for details.
What is this about?
Neurons communicate among themselves using, in particular, times impulses, action potentials called spikes. One of the pressing questions in computational neuroscience is how these spikes add up together to represent the stimuli that the neurons see. In particular, one would like to know if the information about the world is encoded by precise timing of the spikes, by spike rates, or by coincideces between spikes of multiple cells, etc. Additionally, one can answer how the signals of different temporal structure are coded, and how longer temporal properties of the neural code represent signals.
We use information-theoretic methods to answer some of these questions.
Results
- I Nemenman, GD Lewen, W Bialek, RR de Ruyter van Steveninck. Neural Coding of Natural Stimuli: Information at Sub-Millisecond Resolution. PLoS Comput Biol 4(3): e1000025, 2008. PDF, arXiv, Abstract.
Bibliography
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