Title :
Calculating the information content of a temporally modulated spike train
Author :
Coughlin, James P. ; Baran, Robert H.
Abstract :
An expression for the information content of a temporally modulated spike train is derived. With reference to published studies of the temporal encoding of visual stimuli by individual neurons, the expression suggests an information capacity of more than 5 bit/s. This result is insensitive to overspecification of the number of stimuli that the neuron is presumed able to resolve
Keywords :
information theory; neural nets; encoder; estimation; information capacity; information content; overspecification; temporal encoding; temporally modulated spike train; visual stimuli; visual stimulus;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks, 1990., 1990 IJCNN International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA, USA
DOI :
10.1109/IJCNN.1990.137753
