The Meaning of Spikes from the Neuron’s Point of View: Predictive Homeostasis Generates the Appearance of Randomness
The conventional interpretation of spikes is from the perspective of an external observer with knowledge of a neuron’s inputs and outputs who is ignorant of the contents of the black box that is the neuron. Here we consider a neuron to be an observer and we interpret spikes from the neuron’s perspe...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-04-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2014.00049/full |