Abstract
Abstract The contrast-response function of a class of first order intemeurons in the fly's compound eye approximates to the cumulative probability distribution of contrast levels in natural scenes. Elementary information theory shows that this matching enables the neurons to encode contrast fluctuations most efficiently.
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ENCODEContrast (vision)Coding (social sciences)Neural codingComputer scienceSimple (philosophy)Cumulative distribution functionMatching (statistics)Information theoryFisher informationArtificial intelligenceBiological systemMathematicsAlgorithmProbability density functionStatisticsMachine learningBiologyGene
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Simon B. Laughlin
(1981).
A Simple Coding Procedure Enhances a Neuron's Information Capacity.
Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C
, 36
(9-10)
, 910-912.
https://doi.org/10.1515/znc-1981-9-1040
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- 10.1515/znc-1981-9-1040