Stimulus-Dependent Correlations and Population Codes

DOI10.1162/NECO.2009.10-08-879zbMATH Open1171.92007arXiv0810.2152OpenAlexW2159260016WikidataQ48503940 ScholiaQ48503940MaRDI QIDQ3399358FDOQ3399358

Authors: Krešimir Josić, Eric Shea-Brown, Brent Doiron, Jaime de la Rocha 

Publication date: 12 October 2009

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

Abstract: The magnitude of correlations between stimulus-driven responses of pairs of neurons can itself be stimulus-dependent. We examine how this dependence impacts the information carried by neural populations about the stimuli that drive them. Stimulus-dependent changes in correlations can both carry information directly and modulate the information separately carried by the firing rates and variances. We use Fisher information to quantify these effects and show that, although stimulus dependent correlations often carry little information directly, their modulatory effects on the overall information can be large. In particular, if the stimulus-dependence is such that correlations increase with stimulus-induced firing rates, this can significantly enhance the information of the population when the structure of correlations is determined solely by the stimulus. However, in the presence of additional strong spatial decay of correlations, such stimulus-dependence may have a negative impact. Opposite relationships hold when correlations decrease with firing rates.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2152

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Neural biology (92C20)

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