Optimal information transmission in nonlinear arrays through suprathreshold stochastic resonance

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2005.11.068zbMATH Open1187.81086arXivcond-mat/0409528OpenAlexW2136071777MaRDI QIDQ973579FDOQ973579

Nigel G. Stocks, Derek Abbott, Mark D. McDonnell, Charles E. M. Pearce

Publication date: 2 June 2010

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by recent studies of population coding in theoretical neuroscience, we examine the optimality of a recently described form of stochastic resonance known as suprathreshold stochastic resonance, which occurs in populations of noisy threshold devices such as models of sensory neurons. Using the mutual information measure, it is shown numerically that for a random input signal, the optimal threshold distribution contains singularities. For large enough noise, this distribution consists of a single point and hence the optimal encoding is realized by the suprathreshold stochastic resonance effect. Furthermore, it is shown that a bifurcational pattern appears in the optimal threshold settings as the noise intensity increases. Fisher information is used to examine the behavior of the optimal threshold distribution as the population size approaches infinity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0409528

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zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationsinformation theoryquantizationoptimal quantizationpopulation codingsuprathreshold stochastic resonanceneural codingpoint density function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Quantum coding (general) (81P70)

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