Efficiency and ambiguity in an adaptive neural code

Adrienne L. Fairhall (), Geoffrey D. Lewen, William Bialek and Robert R. de Ruyter van Steveninck
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Adrienne L. Fairhall: NEC Research Institute
Geoffrey D. Lewen: NEC Research Institute
William Bialek: NEC Research Institute
Robert R. de Ruyter van Steveninck: NEC Research Institute

Nature, 2001, vol. 412, issue 6849, 787-792

Abstract: Abstract We examine the dynamics of a neural code in the context of stimuli whose statistical properties are themselves evolving dynamically. Adaptation to these statistics occurs over a wide range of timescales—from tens of milliseconds to minutes. Rapid components of adaptation serve to optimize the information that action potentials carry about rapid stimulus variations within the local statistical ensemble, while changes in the rate and statistics of action-potential firing encode information about the ensemble itself, thus resolving potential ambiguities. The speed with which information is optimized and ambiguities are resolved approaches the physical limit imposed by statistical sampling and noise.

Date: 2001
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