A theoretical model of neuronal population coding of stimuli with both continuous and discrete dimensions

Details A theoretical model of neuronal population coding of stimuli with both continuous and discrete dimensions A theoretical model of neuronal population coding of stimuli with both continuous and discrete dimensions

2001-03-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0103286v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

20 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.64.021912

In a recent study the initial rise of the mutual information between the firing rates of N neurons and a set of p discrete stimuli has been analytically evaluated, under the assumption that neurons fire independently of one another to each stimulus and that each conditional distribution of firing rates is gaussian. Yet real stimuli or behavioural correlates are high-dimensional, with both discrete and continuously varying features.Moreover, the gaussian approximation implies negative firing rates, which is biologically implausible. Here, we generalize the analysis to the case where the stimulus or behavioural correlate has both a discrete and a continuous dimension. In the case of large noise we evaluate the mutual information up to the quadratic approximation as a function of population size. Then we consider a more realistic distribution of firing rates, truncated at zero, and we prove that the resulting correction, with respect to the gaussian firing rates, can be expressed simply as a renormalization of the noise parameter. Finally, we demonstrate the effect of averaging the distribution across the discrete dimension, evaluating the mutual information only with respect to the continuously varying correlate.

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