| |
Abstract:
The encoding accuracy of a population of stochastically
spiking neurons is studied for different distributions of their
tuning widths. The situation of identical radially symmetric
receptive fields for all neurons, which is usually considered in
the literature, turns out to be disadvantageous from an
information-theoretic point of view. Both a variability of tuning
widths and a fragmentation of the neural population into
specialized subpopulations improve the encoding accuracy.
|
