Mutual information and redundancy in spontaneous communication between cortical neurons

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 161-174

  Szczepanski, J ^a,d   Arnold, M ^b   Wajnryb, E ^a   Amigo J M ^b   Sanchez Vives, M V ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^d KAZIMIERZ WIELKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Entropy; Mutual information; Neurons; Redundancy; Shannon information; Spikes train; Spontaneous activity; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; SHANNON INFORMATION; SPIKES TRAIN; SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

DATA PROCESSING;

REDUNDANCY;

RATTUS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 79955817708     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-011-0425-y     Document Type: Article

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