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  • Computational Neuroscience

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  • The hippocampal formation is crucial for spatial navigation.
  • Neuronal activity, including place cells and grid cells, encodes spatial information.
  • Quantifying information encoded by neuronal spikes is standard for identifying spatially correlated cells.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the performance of established information metrics against the original mutual information metric for spatial decoding.
  • To investigate discrepancies in identifying top informative cells across different metrics.
  • To propose a normalization method for comparable spatial information estimates.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of simulated and real neuronal data.
  • Comparison of spatial decoding accuracy using various information metrics.
  • Application of a surrogate-based normalization technique.

Main Results:

  • Established information metrics showed lower correlation with spatial decoding accuracy than the original mutual information metric.
  • The selection of top informative cells varied significantly depending on the metric used.
  • Surrogate-based normalization produced comparable spatial information estimates across metrics.

Conclusions:

  • Existing information metrics may not be optimal for identifying spatially informative hippocampal cells.
  • The choice of metric impacts the identification of neuronal populations relevant to spatial navigation.
  • Revisiting and potentially redefining metrics for spatially informative cells is warranted.