Biology – Quantitative Biology – Neurons and Cognition
Scientific paper
2012-03-05
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Neurons and Cognition
13 pages, 8 figures; European Journal of Neuroscience 2010
Scientific paper
Weber's law is one of the basic laws in psychophysics, but the link between this psychophysical behavior and the neuronal response has not yet been established. In this paper, we carried out an analysis on the spike train statistics when Weber's law holds, and found that the efferent spike train of a single neuron is less variable than a Poisson process. For population neurons, Weber's law is satisfied only when the population size is small (< 10 neurons). However, if the population neurons share a weak correlation in their discharges and individual neuronal spike train is more regular than a Poisson process, Weber's law is true without any restriction on the population size. Biased competition attractor network also demonstrates that the coefficient of variation of interspike interval in the winning pool should be less than one for the validity of Weber's law. Our work links Weber's law with neural firing property quantitatively, shedding light on the relation between psychophysical behavior and neuronal responses.
Feng Jianfeng
Kang Jing
Smerieri Anteo
Wu Jianhua
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