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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Main Authors: Christopher D. Fiorillo, Jaekyung K. Kim, Su Z. Hong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2014.00049/full