The InfoPhase Method or How to Read Neurons with Neurons

  • Authors:
  • Raul C. Mureşan;Wolf Singer;Danko Nikolić

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Cognitive and Neural Studies (Coneural), Cluj-Napoca, Romania 400487 and Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 60528;Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 60528 and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 60438;Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 60528 and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 60438

  • Venue:
  • ICANN '08 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Part II
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a novel method that can be used to characterize the dynamics of a source neuronal population. A set of readout, regular spiking neurons, is connected to the population in such a way as to facilitate coding of information about the source in the relative firing phase of the readouts. We show that such a strategy is useful in revealing temporally structured processes in the firing of source neurons, which have been recorded from cat visual cortex. We also suggest extensions of the method to allow for the direct identification of temporal firing patterns in the source population.