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Information loss in an optimal maximum likelihood decoding.

Inés Samengo1

  • 1Centro Atómico Bariloche, (8400) San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina. samengo@cab.cnea.gov.ar

Neural Computation
|April 9, 2002
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This study compares mutual information in neural responses to decoded information, revealing information loss due to decoding distortions. Information loss is quadratic when these distortions are minimal.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Information Theory
  • Computational Neuroscience

Background:

  • Understanding neural coding relies on quantifying information transfer from stimuli to neural responses.
  • Decoding neural responses is crucial for interpreting brain activity but can introduce errors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the mutual information between stimuli and neural responses with the information decoded from those responses.
  • To quantify the information loss introduced by the decoding process.
  • To analyze the relationship between the degree of distortion in response probabilities and information loss.

Main Methods:

  • Calculating mutual information between stimulus sets and neural responses.
  • Modeling the decoding procedure as an artificial distortion of joint probability distributions.

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  • Quantifying information loss as a function of the distortion in probabilities.

    • Main Results:

    • The decoded information is consistently lower than the mutual information.
    • Information loss is directly related to the artificial distortion introduced by the decoding method.
    • A quadratic relationship is observed between information loss and the extent of distortion when probabilities are only slightly altered.

    Conclusions:

    • The decoding process inherently introduces information loss.
    • The degree of information loss is predictable based on the distortion of neural response probabilities.
    • This framework provides a method for assessing the fidelity of neural decoding techniques.