On the Mathematical Consequences of Binning Spike Trains

DOI10.1162/NECO_A_00898zbMath1414.92082DBLPjournals/neco/CessacNL17arXiv1606.08567OpenAlexW2963097035WikidataQ38808671 ScholiaQ38808671MaRDI QIDQ5380638

Arnaud Le Ny, Eva Löcherbach, Bruno Cessac

Publication date: 6 June 2019

Published in: Neural Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We initiate a mathematical analysis of hidden effects induced by binning spike trains of neurons. Assuming that the original spike train has been generated by a discrete Markov process, we show that binning generates a stochastic process which is not Markov any more, but is instead a Variable Length Markov Chain (VLMC) with unbounded memory. We also show that the law of the binned raster is a Gibbs measure in the DLR (Dobrushin-Lanford-Ruelle) sense coined in mathematical statistical mechanics. This allows the derivation of several important consequences on statistical properties of binned spike trains. In particular, we introduce the DLR framework as a natural setting to mathematically formalize anticipation, i.e. to tell "how good" our nervous system is at making predictions. In a probabilistic sense, this corresponds to condition a process by its future and we discuss how binning may affect our conclusions on this ability. We finally comment what could be the consequences of binning in the detection of spurious phase transitions or in the detection of wrong evidences of criticality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08567

zbMATH Keywords

neuronsvariable-length Markov chainbinning spike trains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Neural biology (92C20) Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20)

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