A novel definition of the stimulus-specific information is presented, which is particularly useful when the stimuli constitute a continuous and metric set, as for example, position in space. The approach allows one to build the spatial information distribution of a given neural response. The method is applied to the investigation of putative differences in the coding of position in hippocampus and lateral septum.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0111150,
title = {Measuring information spatial densities},
author = {Michele Bezzi and Ines Samengo and Stefan Leutgeb and Sheri Mizumori},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0111150},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
16 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Neural Computation