The evidence for neural information processing with precise spike-times: A survey

  • Authors:
  • Sander M. Bohte

  • Affiliations:
  • The Netherlands Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands (E-mail: S.M.Bohte@cwi.nl)

  • Venue:
  • Natural Computing: an international journal
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper surveys recent findings in neuroscience regarding thebehavioral relevancy of the precise timing with which real spikingneurons emit spikes. The literature suggests that in almost any systemwhere the processing-speed of a neural (sub)-system is required to behigh, the timing of single spikes can be very precise and reliable.Additionally, new, more refined methods are finding precisely timedspikes where previously none where found. This line of evidence thusprovides additional motivation for researching the computationalproperties of networks of artificial spiking neurons that compute withmore precisely timed spikes.