Spike Train Decoding and Neural Information Processing
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Summary Decoding of stimulus from response Two choice case Discrimination ROC curves Population decoding MAP and ML estimators Bias and variance Fisher information, Cramer-Rao bound Spike train decoding
Mutual information H_noise< H
Entropy of spike trains • Spike train mutual information measurements quantify stimulus specific aspects of neural encoding. • Mutual information of bullfrog peripheral auditory neurons was estimated • 1.4 bits/sec for broadband noise stimulus • 7.8 bits/sec for bullfrog call-like stimulus
Summary • Information theory quantifies how much a response says about a stimulus • Stimulus, response entropy • Noise entropy • Mutual information, KL divergence • Maximizing information transfer yields biological receptive fields • Factorial codes • Equalization • Whitening • Spike train mutual information