Numerical recipes in C (2nd ed.): the art of scientific computing
Numerical recipes in C (2nd ed.): the art of scientific computing
Bayesian spiking neurons i: Inference
Neural Computation
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Every computational unit in the brain monitors incoming signals, instant by instant, for meaningful changes in the face of stochastic fluctuation. Recent studies have suggested that even a single neuron can detect changes in noisy signals. In this paper, we demonstrate that a single leaky integrate-and-fire neuron can achieve change-point detection close to that of theoretical optimal, for uniform-rate process, functions even better than a Bayes-optimal algorithm when the underlying rate deviates from a presumed uniform rate process. Given a reasonable number of synaptic connections (order 104) and the rate of the input spike train, the values of the membrane time constant and the threshold found for optimizing change-point detection are close to those seen in biological neurons. These findings imply that biological neurons could act as sophisticated change-point detectors.