On Optimality in Auditory Information Processing

DOI10.1162/089976602320264042MaRDI QIDQ3149512zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mattias F. Karlsson, John W. C. Robinson

Publication date 5 May 2003

Published in Neural Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0010041

zbMATH Keywords

mammalian auditory systemstochastic Fitzhugh-Nagumo model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Neural biology (92C20) Stochastic ordinary differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H10)

Abstract: We study limits for the detection and estimation of weak sinusoidal signals in the primary part of the mammalian auditory system using a stochastic Fitzhugh-Nagumo (FHN) model and an action-reaction model for synaptic plasticity. Our overall model covers the chain from a hair cell to a point just after the synaptic connection with a cell in the cochlear nucleus. The information processing performance of the system is evaluated using so called phi-divergences from statistics which quantify a dissimilarity between probability measures and are intimately related to a number of fundamental limits in statistics and information theory (IT). We show that there exists a set of parameters that can optimize several important phi-divergences simultaneously and that this set corresponds to a constant quiescent firing rate (QFR) of the spiral ganglion neuron. The optimal value of the QFR is frequency dependent but is essentially independent of the amplitude of the signal (for small amplitudes). Consequently, optimal processing according to several standard IT criteria can be accomplished for this model if and only if the parameters are ``tuned to values that correspond to one and the same QFR. This offers a new explanation for the QFR and can provide new insight into the role played by several other parameters of the peripheral auditory system.

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