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SUMMARY:Prof. Gerstner Lab: Valentin Schmutz - Rate coding explained
DTSTART:20221214T121500
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DESCRIPTION:TBD\nHybrid - By invitation only\n\nThe century-old idea that\
 , under a neuron's noisy spike activity\, there is a much less variable ra
 te code has enabled many discoveries in neuroscience. While fruitful in pr
 actice\, the idea of rate coding comes with a theoretical paradox: how can
  noisy spiking neurons transmit fast\, time-varying rate codes? The only
  known solutions to this question require each neuron to have many redunda
 nt twins sharing the same rate code\, a solution that is neither economica
 l nor biologically realistic.\nWe show that this form of redundancy is unn
 ecessary. Specifically\, we prove that noiseless transmission of uncorrela
 ted rate codes from one population of noisy spiking neurons to another is 
 possible\, thanks to the concentration of measure phenomenon. By showing t
 hat the transmission of rate codes between spiking neurons can be an emerg
 ent behavior in large networks\, our result provides a new solution to the
  paradox of rate coding.
LOCATION:SV 1717 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717
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