Information transfer by energy-efficient neurons

  • Authors:
  • Toby Berger;William B. Levy

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA;Department of Neurosurgery and Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

  • Venue:
  • ISIT'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Symposium on Information Theory - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We introduce and analyze a biologically motivated mathematical model of a neuron in primary cortex that we call neuron j, or just j- Our goal is to ascertain how j maximizes the ratio of the information it conveys to the energy it expends.