--- Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Someone please explain this to me]: > http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/danl-loa030708.php
Here is the paper. http://www.menem.com/%7Eilya/wiki/images/1/16/Nemenman-etal-08.pdf An artificial neural network normally models the average rate of firing as the information carrying signal. The paper shows that this model is not fully correct. The timing of individual spikes also carries significant information from the eye of a fly. I recall (don't remember the source) that in humans, individual pulses carry phase information for stereoscopic sound perception up to 1500 Hz. This is another exception to the usual neural model. I also recall that nerves in the finger transmit about 10 bits per second (again, I don't remember the source). Encoding information in spike timing would greatly increase the channel capacity of an axon. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=98558129-0bdb63 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
