MofM - Cracking the Neural Code
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This is a part of noted from reading the book Models of the Mind about Computational Neuroscience.
This chapter Cracking the Neural Code is about visual processing and computer vision.
1928, Edgar Adrian
- book 'The Basis of Sensation'
- the interval between spikes matters, rather than the height of the spike
1941, Shannon
- information theory
1952, McColloch & Mackay
- started linking information theory with neuroscience
- but they were not sure the theory was implemented in which form of the neural code
1968, Bullock & Perkel
- nervous system represents information
1967, Richard Stein
- rate-based code
1972, Horace Barlow
- efficient coding: cells should adapt responses to the signals they are receiving to be efficient (adaptation)
sparse coding
- to reduce redundancy, only a small number of neurons should be activated at a time