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Erschienen in: Journal of Computational Neuroscience 1/2011

01.02.2011

A metric space approach to the information channel capacity of spike trains

verfasst von: James B. Gillespie, Conor J. Houghton

Erschienen in: Journal of Computational Neuroscience | Ausgabe 1/2011

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Abstract

A novel method is presented for calculating the information channel capacity of spike trains. This method works by fitting a χ-distribution to the distribution of distances between responses to the same stimulus: the χ-distribution is the length distribution for a vector of Gaussian variables. The dimension of this vector defines an effective dimension for the noise and by rephrasing the problem in terms of distance based quantities, this allows the channel capacity to be calculated. As an example, the capacity is calculated for a data set recorded from auditory neurons in zebra finch.

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Metadaten
Titel
A metric space approach to the information channel capacity of spike trains
verfasst von
James B. Gillespie
Conor J. Houghton
Publikationsdatum
01.02.2011
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Journal of Computational Neuroscience / Ausgabe 1/2011
Print ISSN: 0929-5313
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-6873
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10827-010-0286-8

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