A Subjective Distance Between Stimuli: Quantifying the Metric Structure of Representations

DOI10.1162/0899766053429372MaRDI QIDQ5706670zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Damián Oliva, Inés Samengo, Stefan Leutgeb, Sheri J. Mizumori

Publication date 21 November 2005

Published in Neural Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0408008

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Psychophysics and psychophysiology; perception (91E30) Neural biology (92C20)

Abstract: As subjects perceive the sensory world, different stimuli elicit a number of neural representations. Here, a subjective distance between stimuli is defined, measuring the degree of similarity between the underlying representations. As an example, the subjective distance between different locations in space is calculated from the activity of rodent hippocampal place cells, and lateral septal cells. Such a distance is compared to the real distance, between locations. As the number of sampled neurons increases, the subjective distance shows a tendency to resemble the metrics of real space.

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