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Perspectives on Neuroscience
Published on: July 31, 2007
Characteristics of the neural coding of causality
1Department of Psychology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China and Tsinghua Brain and Intelligence Lab, Beijing 100084, China.
Abstract:
While causality processing is an essential cognitive capacity of the neural system, a systematic understanding of the neural coding of causality is still elusive. We propose a physically fundamental analysis of this issue and demonstrate that the neural dynamics encodes the original causality between external events near homomorphically. The causality coding is memory robust for the amount of historical information and features high precision but low recall. This coding process creates a sparser representation for the external causality. Finally, we propose a statistic characterization for the neural coding mapping from the original causality to the coded causality in neural dynamics.
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