The impact of high-order interactions on the rate of synchronous discharge and information transmission in somatosensory cortex

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1901, 2009, Pages 3297-3310

  Montani, Fernando ^a   Ince, Robin A A ^b   Senatore, Riccardo ^b   Arabzadeh, Ehsan ^c   Diamond, Mathew E ^a   Panzeri, Stefano ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Information geometry; Maximum entropy; Mutual information; Spike synchronization

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS;

HIGH ORDER CORRELATION; HIGH-ORDER; HIGHER ORDER; INFORMATION GEOMETRY; INFORMATION TRANSMISSION; INTERACTION MODEL; LOCAL POPULATIONS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRINCIPLE; MODEL-BASED; MUTUAL INFORMATION; NEURAL POPULATIONS; PAIRWISE INTERACTION; SHANNON INFORMATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY INFORMATION; SPIKE SYNCHRONIZATION; SYNCHRONOUS DISCHARGE;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENTROPY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME;

ENTROPY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PROBABILITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 69649100779     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0082     Document Type: Article

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