作者
Einat Kermany, Asaf Gal, Vladimir Lyakhov, Ron Meir, Shimon Marom, Danny Eytan
发表日期
2010/7/14
期刊
Journal of Neuroscience
卷号
30
期号
28
页码范围
9588-9596
出版商
Society for Neuroscience
简介
Neural representation is pivotal in neuroscience. Yet, the large number and variance of underlying determinants make it difficult to distinguish general physiologic constraints on representation. Here we offer a general approach to the issue, enabling a systematic and well controlled experimental analysis of constraints and tradeoffs, imposed by the physiology of neuronal populations, on plausible representation schemes. Using in vitro networks of rat cortical neurons as a model system, we compared the efficacy of different kinds of “neural codes” to represent both spatial and temporal input features. Two rate-based representation schemes and two time-based representation schemes were considered. Our results indicate that, by large, all representation schemes perform well in the various discrimination tasks tested, indicating the inherent redundancy in neural population activity; Nevertheless, differences in …
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