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Estimating The Amount Of Information Conveyed By A Population Of Neurons, Marshall Crumiller
Estimating The Amount Of Information Conveyed By A Population Of Neurons, Marshall Crumiller
Knight Laboratory
Recent advances in electrophysiological recording technology have allowed for the collection of data from large populations of neurons simultaneously. Yet despite these advances, methods for the estimation of the amount of information conveyed by multiple neurons have been stymied by the “curse of dimensionality”–as the number of included neurons increases, so too does the dimensionality of the data necessary for such measurements, leading to an exponential and, therefore, intractible increase in the amounts of data required for valid measurements. Here we put forth a novel method for the estimation of the amount of information transmitted by the discharge of a …