no code implementations • 24 Jul 2022 • Shuai Shao, Markus Meister, Julijana Gjorgjieva
Here we derive a general theory of optimal population coding with neuronal activation functions of any shape, different types of noise and heterogeneous firing rates of the neurons by maximizing the Shannon mutual information between a stimulus and the neuronal spiking output subject to a constrain on the maximal firing rate.
