Reliability and information transmission in spiking neurons.
Spiking neurons encode continuous, time-varying signals in sequences of identical action potentials. Relatively simple algorithms allow one to 'decode' this neural representation of sensory data to estimate the input signals. Decoding experiments provide a quantitative characterization of information transmission and computational reliability under real-time conditions. The results of these studies show that neural coding and computation in several systems approach fundamental physical and informational theoretic limits to performance.
D000200:Action Potentials; D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000502:physiology; D009435:Synaptic Transmission