Information loss associated with imperfect observation and mismatched decoding

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Oizumi, Masafumi ^a   Okada, Masato ^a,b   Amari, Shun Ichi ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coincidence detection; Correlated activity; Fisher information; Imperfect observation; Information geometry; Information loss; Mismatched decoding

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; INFORMATION SCIENCE; NEURONS;

COINCIDENCE DETECTION; CORRELATED ACTIVITY; FISHER INFORMATION; IMPERFECT OBSERVATION; INFORMATION GEOMETRY; INFORMATION LOSS; MISMATCHED DECODING;

DECODING;

BRAIN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STIMULUS;

EID: 84959505298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2011.00009     Document Type: Article

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