It is difficult to extract the information carried by neuronal responses about a set of stimuli because limited data samples result in biased estimates. Recently two improved procedures have been developed to calculate information from experimental results: a binning-and-correcting procedure and a neural network procedure. We have used data produced from a model of the spatiotemporal receptive fields of parvocellular and magnocellular lateral geniculate neurons to study the performance of these methods as a function of the number of trials used. Both procedures yield accurate results for one-dimensional neuronal codes. They can also be used to produce a reasonable estimate of the extra information in a three-dimensional code, in this instance, within 0.05-0.1 bit of the asymptotically calculated value - about 10% of the total transmitted information. We believe that this performance is much more accurate than previous procedures.

How well can we estimate the information carried in neuronal responses from limited samples? / Golomb, David; Hertz, John; Panzeri, Stefano; Treves, Alessandro; Richmond, Barry. - In: NEURAL COMPUTATION. - ISSN 0899-7667. - 9:3(1997), pp. 649-665. [10.1162/neco.1997.9.3.649]

How well can we estimate the information carried in neuronal responses from limited samples?

Panzeri, Stefano;Treves, Alessandro;
1997-01-01

Abstract

It is difficult to extract the information carried by neuronal responses about a set of stimuli because limited data samples result in biased estimates. Recently two improved procedures have been developed to calculate information from experimental results: a binning-and-correcting procedure and a neural network procedure. We have used data produced from a model of the spatiotemporal receptive fields of parvocellular and magnocellular lateral geniculate neurons to study the performance of these methods as a function of the number of trials used. Both procedures yield accurate results for one-dimensional neuronal codes. They can also be used to produce a reasonable estimate of the extra information in a three-dimensional code, in this instance, within 0.05-0.1 bit of the asymptotically calculated value - about 10% of the total transmitted information. We believe that this performance is much more accurate than previous procedures.
1997
9
3
649
665
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/10.1162/neco.1997.9.3.649
Golomb, David; Hertz, John; Panzeri, Stefano; Treves, Alessandro; Richmond, Barry
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