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Closed-loop Neuro-robotic Experiments to Test Computational Properties of Neuronal Networks
Published on: March 2, 2015
Information content in continuous attractor neural networks is preserved in the presence of moderate disordered
Tobias Kühn1,2, Rémi Monasson1
1Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS UMR8023 and PSL Research, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, F-75005 Paris, France.
Abstract:
Continuous attractor neural networks (CANN) form an appealing conceptual model for the storage of information in the brain. However a drawback of CANN is that they require finely tuned interactions. We here study the effect of quenched noise in the interactions on the coding of positional information within CANN. Using the replica method we compute the Fisher information for a network with position-dependent input and recurrent connections composed of a short-range (in space) and a disordered component. We find that the loss in positional information is small for not too large disorder strength, indicating that CANN have a regime in which the advantageous effects of local connectivity on information storage outweigh the detrimental ones. Furthermore, a substantial part of this information can be extracted with a simple linear readout.
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