2017/10/09 by William T. Redman, Redman, William T
Engineering · Neuroscience · Nursing · #Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies #Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques #FOS: Biological sciences #Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research #Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies #Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1710.03264
openalex publication_date 2017/10/09 · openalex created_date 2022/09/02 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Recent experimental and theoretical work on neural populations belonging to\ntwo separate early sensory systems, olfaction and vision, has challenged the\nnotion that the two operate under different computational paradigms by\nproviding evidence for the respective neural population codes having three\ncentral, common features: they are highly redundant; they are organized such\nthat information is carried in the identity, and not the relative timing, of\nthe active neurons; they are capable of error correction. We present the first\nmodel that captures these three properties in a general manner, making it\npossible to investigate whether similar structure is present in other\npopulation codes. Our model also makes specific predictions about additional,\nas yet unseen, structure in such codes. If these predictions are found in real\ndata, this would provide new evidence that such population codes are operating\nunder more general computational principles.\n