Reading a Neural Code
Abstract
Traditional methods of studying neural coding characterize the en(cid:173) coding of known stimuli in average neural responses. Organisms face nearly the opposite task - decoding short segments of a spike train to extract information about an unknown, time-varying stim(cid:173) ulus. Here we present strategies for characterizing the neural code from the point of view of the organism, culminating in algorithms for real-time stimulus reconstruction based on a single sample of the spike train. These methods are applied to the design and anal(cid:173) ysis of experiments on an identified movement-sensitive neuron in the fly visual system. As far as we know this is the first instance in which a direct "reading" of the neural code has been accomplished.
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Bialek et al. "Reading a Neural Code." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1989.Markdown
[Bialek et al. "Reading a Neural Code." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1989.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1989/bialek1989neurips-reading/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{bialek1989neurips-reading,
title = {{Reading a Neural Code}},
author = {Bialek, William and Rieke, Fred and de Ruyter van Steveninck, Robert R. and Warland, David},
booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
year = {1989},
pages = {36-43},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1989/bialek1989neurips-reading/}
}