Redwood Neuroscience
Title " Information Transmission with Renewal Neurons."
Carl
van Vreeswijk
Neurophysics
and Physiology of the Motor System
Abstract:
It is becoming increasingly common to study the
statistics of neural data using information theory. Unfortunately the result of
such an analysis is usually only compared to that of Poisson processes. This
null hypothesis can almost always be rejected. Because real neurons, unlike
Poisson processes, have refractory periods, this is extremely unsurprising. I
will present the result of a study of information theoretic measures applied to generalized renewal
processes, and will show that many of the features found in information
theoretic results from real spike trains can be reproduced with renewal
processes.