| Literature DB >> 1742368 |
L M Optican1, T J Gawne, B J Richmond, P J Joseph.
Abstract
Two measures from information theory, transmitted information and channel capacity, can quantify the ability of neurons to convey stimulus-dependent information. These measures are calculated using probability functions estimated from stimulus-response data. However, these estimates are biased by response quantization, noise, and small sample sizes. Improved estimators are developed in this paper that depend on both an estimate of the sample-size bias and the noise in the data.Mesh:
Year: 1991 PMID: 1742368 DOI: 10.1007/bf00216963
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biol Cybern ISSN: 0340-1200 Impact factor: 2.086