no code implementations • NeurIPS 2017 • Giuseppe Pica, Eugenio Piasini, Houman Safaai, Caroline Runyan, Christopher Harvey, Mathew Diamond, Christoph Kayser, Tommaso Fellin, Stefano Panzeri
Determining how much of the sensory information carried by a neural code contributes to behavioral performance is key to understand sensory function and neural information flow.
no code implementations • 13 Nov 2017 • Daniel Chicharro, Giuseppe Pica, Stefano Panzeri
Harder et al. (2013) proposed an identity axiom stating that there cannot be redundancy between two independent sources about a copy of themselves.
no code implementations • 27 Jun 2017 • Giuseppe Pica, Eugenio Piasini, Daniel Chicharro, Stefano Panzeri
In a system of three stochastic variables, the Partial Information Decomposition (PID) of Williams and Beer dissects the information that two variables (sources) carry about a third variable (target) into nonnegative information atoms that describe redundant, unique, and synergistic modes of dependencies among the variables.