Spike pattern-based coding schemes in the cricket cercal sensory system
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چکیده
We apply the recently developed information distortion method (Comput. Neural Systems 12 (4) (2001) 441) to the analysis of coding by single neurons in the cricket cercal sensory system. This technique allows simultaneous identi5cation of stimulus features and corresponding neural responses. The best approximation of a coding scheme that we obtained suggests that signi5cant information is encoded in spike patterns. We compare this method to the linear stimulus reconstruction approach. Our coarsest nontrivial reproduction completely recovers the stimulus reconstruction results. Further re5nements uncover additional structure, not present in the stimulus reconstruction results. c © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Neurocomputing
دوره 44-46 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002