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<p><b>Neural coding</b> (or <b>neural representation</b>) is a <a href="Neuroscience" title="Neuroscience">neuroscience</a> field concerned with characterising the hypothetical relationship between the <a href="Stimulus_(physiology)" title="Stimulus (physiology)">stimulus</a> and the neuronal responses, and the relationship among the <a href="Electrophysiology" title="Electrophysiology">electrical activities</a> of the neurons in the <a href="Neuronal_ensemble" title="Neuronal ensemble">ensemble</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Brown_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brown-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Based on the theory that
sensory and other information is represented in the <a href="Brain" title="Brain">brain</a> by <a href="Biological_neural_network" class="mw-redirect" title="Biological neural network">networks of neurons</a>, it is believed that <a href="Neuron" title="Neuron">neurons</a> can encode both <a href="Digital_data" title="Digital data">digital</a> and <a href="Analog_signal" title="Analog signal">analog</a> information.<sup id="cite_ref-thorpe_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thorpe-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2></div>
<p>Neurons have an ability uncommon among the cells of the body to propagate signals rapidly over large distances by generating characteristic electrical pulses called <a href="Action_potentials" class="mw-redirect" title="Action potentials">action potentials</a>: voltage spikes that can travel down axons. Sensory neurons change their activities by firing sequences of action potentials in various temporal patterns, with the presence of external sensory stimuli, such as <a href="Light" title="Light">light</a>, <a href="Sound" title="Sound">sound</a>, <a href="Taste" title="Taste">taste</a>, <a href="Olfaction" class="mw-redirect" title="Olfaction">smell</a> and <a href="Touch" class="mw-redirect" title="Touch">touch</a>. Information about the stimulus is encoded in this pattern of action potentials and transmitted into and around the brain. Beyond this, specialized neurons, such as those of the retina, can communicate more information through <a href="Graded_potential" title="Graded potential">graded potentials</a>. These differ from action potentials because information about the strength of a stimulus directly correlates with the strength of the neurons' output. The signal decays much faster for graded potentials, necessitating short inter-neuron distances and high neuronal density. The advantage of graded potentials is higher information rates capable of encoding more states (i.e. higher fidelity) than spiking neurons.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Although action potentials can vary somewhat in duration, <a href="Amplitude" title="Amplitude">amplitude</a> and shape, they are typically treated as identical stereotyped events in neural coding studies. If the brief duration of an action potential (about 1 ms) is ignored, an action potential sequence, or spike train, can be characterized simply by a series of <a href="All-or-none_law" title="All-or-none law">all-or-none</a> point events in time.<sup id="cite_ref-Gerstner_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gerstner-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The lengths of interspike intervals (<a href="Temporal_coding" class="mw-redirect" title="Temporal coding">ISIs</a>) between two successive spikes in a spike train often vary, apparently randomly.<sup id="cite_ref-Stein_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stein-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The study of neural coding involves measuring and characterizing how stimulus attributes, such as light or sound intensity, or motor actions, such as the direction of an arm movement, are represented by neuron action potentials or spikes. In order to describe and analyze neuronal firing, <a href="Statistical_methods" class="mw-redirect" title="Statistical methods">statistical methods</a> and methods of <a href="Probability_theory" title="Probability theory">probability theory</a> and stochastic <a href="Point_process" title="Point process">point processes</a> have been widely applied.
</p><p>With the development of large-scale neural recording and decoding technologies, researchers have begun to crack the neural code and have already provided the first glimpse into the real-time neural code as memory is formed and recalled in the hippocampus, a brain region known to be central for memory formation.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Neuroscientists have initiated several large-scale brain decoding projects.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Encoding_and_decoding">Encoding and decoding</h2></div>
<p>The link between stimulus and response can be studied from two opposite points of view. Neural encoding refers to the map from stimulus to response. The main focus is to understand how neurons respond to a wide variety of stimuli, and to construct models that attempt to predict responses to other stimuli. <a href="Neural_decoding" title="Neural decoding">Neural decoding</a> refers to the reverse map, from response to stimulus, and the challenge is to reconstruct a stimulus, or certain aspects of that stimulus, from the spike sequences it evokes.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hypothesized_coding_schemes">Hypothesized coding schemes</h2></div>
<p>A sequence, or 'train', of spikes may contain information based on different coding schemes. In some neurons the strength with which a postsynaptic partner responds may depend solely on the 'firing rate', the average number of spikes per unit time (a 'rate code'). At the other end, a complex '<a href="Temporal_code" class="mw-redirect" title="Temporal code">temporal code</a>' is based on the precise timing of single spikes. They may be locked to an external stimulus such as in the visual<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="Auditory_system" title="Auditory system">auditory system</a> or be generated intrinsically by the neural circuitry.<sup id="cite_ref-Gerstner97_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gerstner97-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Whether neurons use rate coding or temporal coding is a topic of intense debate within the neuroscience community, even though there is no clear definition of what these terms mean.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rate_code">Rate code</h3></div>
<p>The rate coding model of <a href="Neuron" title="Neuron">neuronal</a> firing communication states that as the intensity of a stimulus increases, the <a href="Frequency" title="Frequency">frequency</a> or rate of <a href="Action_potential" title="Action potential">action potentials</a>, or "spike firing", increases. Rate coding is sometimes called frequency coding.
</p><p>Rate coding is a traditional coding scheme, assuming that most, if not all, information about the stimulus is contained in the firing rate of the neuron. Because the sequence of action potentials generated by a given stimulus varies from trial to trial, neuronal responses are typically treated statistically or probabilistically. They may be characterized by firing rates, rather than as specific spike sequences. In most sensory systems, the firing rate increases, generally non-linearly, with increasing stimulus intensity.<sup id="cite_ref-Kandel_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kandel-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under a rate coding assumption, any information possibly encoded in the temporal structure of the spike train is ignored. Consequently, rate coding is inefficient but highly robust with respect to the ISI '<a href="Noise" title="Noise">noise</a>'.<sup id="cite_ref-Stein_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stein-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>During rate coding, precisely calculating firing rate is very important. In fact, the term "firing rate" has a few different definitions, which refer to different averaging procedures, such as an <b>average over time</b> (rate as a single-neuron spike count) or an <b>average over several repetitions</b> (rate of PSTH) of experiment.
</p><p>In rate coding, learning is based on activity-dependent synaptic weight modifications.
</p><p>Rate coding was originally shown by <a href="Edgar_Adrian" title="Edgar Adrian">Edgar Adrian</a> and <a href="Yngve_Zotterman" title="Yngve Zotterman">Yngve Zotterman</a> in 1926.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In this simple experiment different weights were hung from a <a href="Muscle" title="Muscle">muscle</a>. As the weight of the stimulus increased, the number of spikes recorded from sensory nerves innervating the muscle also increased. From these original experiments, Adrian and Zotterman concluded that action potentials were unitary events, and that the frequency of events, and not individual event magnitude, was the basis for most inter-neuronal communication.
</p><p>In the following decades, measurement of firing rates became a standard tool for describing the properties of all types of sensory or <a href="Cerebral_cortex" title="Cerebral cortex">cortical</a> neurons, partly due to the relative ease of measuring rates experimentally. However, this approach neglects all the information possibly contained in the exact timing of the spikes. During recent years, more and more experimental evidence has suggested that a straightforward firing rate concept based on temporal averaging may be too simplistic to describe brain activity.<sup id="cite_ref-Stein_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stein-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Spike-count_rate_(average_over_time)">Spike-count rate (average over time)</h4></div>
<p>The spike-count rate, also referred to as temporal average, is obtained by counting the number of spikes that appear during a trial and dividing by the duration of trial.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The length T of the time window is set by the experimenter and depends on the type of neuron recorded from and to the stimulus. In practice, to get sensible averages, several spikes should occur within the time window. Typical values are T = 100 ms or T = 500 ms, but the duration may also be longer or shorter (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lcnwww.epfl.ch/gerstner/SPNM/node7.html">Chapter 1.5</a> in the textbook 'Spiking Neuron Models' <sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>).
</p><p>The spike-count rate can be determined from a single trial, but at the expense of losing all temporal resolution about variations in neural response during the course of the trial. Temporal averaging can work well in cases where the stimulus is constant or slowly varying and does not require a fast reaction of the <a href="Organism" title="Organism">organism</a> — and this is the situation usually encountered in experimental protocols. Real-world input, however, is hardly stationary, but often changing on a fast time scale. For example, even when viewing a static image, humans perform <a href="Saccades" class="mw-redirect" title="Saccades">saccades</a>, rapid changes of the direction of gaze. The image projected onto the retinal <a href="Photoreceptor_cell" title="Photoreceptor cell">photoreceptors</a> changes therefore every few hundred milliseconds (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lcnwww.epfl.ch/gerstner/SPNM/node7.html">Chapter 1.5</a> in <sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)
</p><p>Despite its shortcomings, the concept of a spike-count rate code is widely used not only in experiments, but also in models of <a href="Neural_networks" class="mw-redirect" title="Neural networks">neural networks</a>. It has led to the idea that a neuron transforms information about a single input variable (the stimulus strength) into a single continuous output variable (the firing rate).
</p><p>There is a growing body of evidence that in <a href="Purkinje_neurons" class="mw-redirect" title="Purkinje neurons">Purkinje neurons</a>, at least, information is not simply encoded in firing but also in the timing and duration of non-firing, quiescent periods.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is also evidence from retinal cells, that information is encoded not only in the firing rate but also in spike timing.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More generally, whenever a rapid response of an organism is required a firing rate defined as a spike-count over a few hundred milliseconds is simply too slow.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Time-dependent_firing_rate_(averaging_over_several_trials)">Time-dependent firing rate (averaging over several trials)</h4></div>
<p>The time-dependent firing rate is defined as the average number of spikes (averaged over trials) appearing during a short interval between times t and t+Δt, divided by the duration of the interval.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It works for stationary as well as for time-dependent stimuli. To experimentally measure the time-dependent firing rate, the experimenter records from a neuron while stimulating with some input sequence. The same stimulation sequence is repeated several times and the neuronal response is reported in a <a href="PSTH" class="mw-redirect" title="PSTH">Peri-Stimulus-Time Histogram</a> (PSTH). The time t is measured with respect to the start of the stimulation sequence. The Δt must be large enough (typically in the range of one or a few milliseconds) so that there is a sufficient number of spikes within the interval to obtain a reliable estimate of the average. The number of occurrences of spikes n<sub>K</sub>(t;t+Δt) summed over all repetitions of the experiment divided by the number K of repetitions is a measure of the typical activity of the neuron between time t and t+Δt. A further division by the interval length Δt yields time-dependent firing rate r(t) of the neuron, which is equivalent to the spike density of PSTH (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lcnwww.epfl.ch/gerstner/SPNM/node7.html">Chapter 1.5</a> in <sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>).
</p><p>For sufficiently small Δt, r(t)Δt is the average number of spikes occurring between times t and t+Δt over multiple trials. If Δt is small, there will never be more than one spike within the interval between t and t+Δt on any given trial. This means that r(t)Δt is also the <a href="Fraction_(mathematics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fraction (mathematics)">fraction</a> of trials on which a spike occurred between those times. Equivalently, r(t)Δt is the <a href="Probability" title="Probability">probability</a> that a spike occurs during this time interval.
</p><p>As an experimental procedure, the time-dependent firing rate measure is a useful method to evaluate neuronal activity, in particular in the case of time-dependent stimuli. The obvious problem with this approach is that it can not be the coding scheme used by neurons in the brain. Neurons can not wait for the stimuli to repeatedly present in an exactly same manner before generating a response.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Nevertheless, the experimental time-dependent firing rate measure can make sense, if there are large populations of independent neurons that receive the same stimulus. Instead of recording from a population of N neurons in a single run, it is experimentally easier to record from a single neuron and average over N repeated runs. Thus, the time-dependent firing rate coding relies on the implicit assumption that there are always populations of neurons.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Temporal_coding">Temporal coding</h3></div>
<p>When precise spike timing or high-frequency firing-rate <a href="Statistical_fluctuations" title="Statistical fluctuations">fluctuations</a> are found to carry information, the neural code is often identified as a temporal code.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Dayan_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dayan-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A number of studies have found that the temporal resolution of the neural code is on a millisecond time scale, indicating that precise spike timing is a significant element in neural coding.<sup id="cite_ref-thorpe_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thorpe-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Daniel_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Daniel-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such codes, that communicate via the time between spikes are also referred to as interpulse interval codes, and have been supported by recent studies.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Neurons exhibit high-frequency fluctuations of firing-rates which could be noise or could carry information. Rate coding models suggest that these irregularities are noise, while temporal coding models suggest that they encode information. If the nervous system only used rate codes to convey information, a more consistent, regular firing rate would have been evolutionarily advantageous, and neurons would have utilized this code over other less robust options.<sup id="cite_ref-van_Hemmen_2006_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-van_Hemmen_2006-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Temporal coding supplies an alternate explanation for the “noise," suggesting that it actually encodes information and affects neural processing. To model this idea, binary symbols can be used to mark the spikes: 1 for a spike, 0 for no spike. Temporal coding allows the sequence 000111000111 to mean something different from 001100110011, even though the mean firing rate is the same for both sequences, at 6 spikes/10 ms.<sup id="cite_ref-Theunissen_F_1995_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Theunissen_F_1995-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Until recently, scientists had put the most emphasis on rate encoding as an explanation for <a href="Post-synaptic_potential" class="mw-redirect" title="Post-synaptic potential">post-synaptic potential</a> patterns. However, functions of the brain are more temporally precise than the use of only rate encoding seems to allow.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In other words, essential information could be lost due to the inability of the rate code to capture all the available information of the spike train. In addition, responses are different enough between similar (but not identical) stimuli to suggest that the distinct patterns of spikes contain a higher volume of information than is possible to include in a rate code.<sup id="cite_ref-Zador,_Stevens_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zador,_Stevens-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Temporal codes (also called <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lcnwww.epfl.ch/gerstner/SPNM/node8.html">spike codes</a> <sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), employ those features of the spiking activity that cannot be described by the firing rate. For example, <b>time-to-first-spike</b> after the stimulus onset, <b>phase-of-firing</b> with respect to background oscillations, characteristics based on the second and higher statistical <a href="Moment_(mathematics)" title="Moment (mathematics)">moments</a> of the ISI <a href="Probability_distribution" title="Probability distribution">probability distribution</a>, spike randomness, or precisely timed groups of spikes (<b>temporal patterns</b>) are candidates for temporal codes.<sup id="cite_ref-Kostal_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kostal-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As there is no absolute time reference in the nervous system, the information is carried either in terms of the relative timing of spikes in a population of neurons (temporal patterns) or with respect to an <a href="Neural_oscillations" class="mw-redirect" title="Neural oscillations">ongoing brain oscillation</a> (phase of firing).<sup id="cite_ref-thorpe_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thorpe-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Stein_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stein-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One way in which temporal codes are decoded, in presence of <a href="Neural_oscillations" class="mw-redirect" title="Neural oscillations">neural oscillations</a>, is that spikes occurring at specific phases of an oscillatory cycle are more effective in depolarizing the <a href="Chemical_synapse" title="Chemical synapse">post-synaptic neuron</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Gupta2016_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gupta2016-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The temporal structure of a spike train or firing rate evoked by a stimulus is determined both by the dynamics of the stimulus and by the nature of the neural encoding process. Stimuli that change rapidly tend to generate precisely timed spikes<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (and rapidly changing firing rates in PSTHs) no matter what neural coding strategy is being used. Temporal coding in the narrow sense refers to temporal precision in the response that does not arise solely from the dynamics of the stimulus, but that nevertheless relates to properties of the stimulus. The interplay between stimulus and encoding dynamics makes the identification of a temporal code difficult.
</p><p>In temporal coding, learning can be explained by activity-dependent synaptic delay modifications.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The modifications can themselves depend not only on spike rates (rate coding) but also on spike timing patterns (temporal coding), i.e., can be a special case of <a href="Spike-timing-dependent_plasticity" title="Spike-timing-dependent plasticity">spike-timing-dependent plasticity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The issue of temporal coding is distinct and independent from the issue of independent-spike coding. If each spike is independent of all the other spikes in the train, the temporal character of the neural code is determined by the behavior of time-dependent firing rate r(t). If r(t) varies slowly with time, the code is typically called a rate code, and if it varies rapidly, the code is called temporal.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Temporal_coding_in_sensory_systems">Temporal coding in sensory systems</h4></div>
<p>For very brief stimuli, a neuron's maximum firing rate may not be fast enough to produce more than a single spike. Due to the density of information about the abbreviated stimulus contained in this single spike, it would seem that the timing of the spike itself would have to convey more information than simply the average frequency of action potentials over a given period of time. This model is especially important for <a href="Sound_localization" title="Sound localization">sound localization</a>, which occurs within the brain on the order of milliseconds. The brain must obtain a large quantity of information based on a relatively short neural response. Additionally, if low firing rates on the order of ten spikes per second must be distinguished from arbitrarily close rate coding for different stimuli, then a neuron trying to discriminate these two stimuli may need to wait for a second or more to accumulate enough information. This is not consistent with numerous organisms which are able to discriminate between stimuli in the time frame of milliseconds, suggesting that a rate code is not the only model at work.<sup id="cite_ref-Theunissen_F_1995_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Theunissen_F_1995-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>To account for the fast encoding of visual stimuli, it has been suggested that neurons of the retina encode visual information in the latency time between stimulus onset and first action potential, also called latency to first spike or time-to-first-spike.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This type of temporal coding has been shown also in the auditory and somato-sensory system. The main drawback of such a coding scheme is its sensitivity to intrinsic neuronal fluctuations.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="Visual_cortex#Primary_visual_cortex_(V1)" title="Visual cortex">primary visual cortex</a> of macaques, the timing of the first spike relative to the start of the stimulus was found to provide more information than the interval between spikes. However, the interspike interval could be used to encode additional information, which is especially important when the spike rate reaches its limit, as in high-contrast situations. For this reason, temporal coding may play a part in coding defined edges rather than gradual transitions.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The mammalian <a href="Gustatory_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Gustatory system">gustatory system</a> is useful for studying temporal coding because of its fairly distinct stimuli and the easily discernible responses of the organism.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Temporally encoded information may help an organism discriminate between different tastants of the same category (sweet, bitter, sour, salty, umami) that elicit very similar responses in terms of spike count. The temporal component of the pattern elicited by each tastant may be used to determine its identity (e.g., the difference between two bitter tastants, such as quinine and denatonium). In this way, both rate coding and temporal coding may be used in the gustatory system – rate for basic tastant type, temporal for more specific differentiation.<sup id="cite_ref-Carleton_A_2010_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carleton_A_2010-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Research on mammalian gustatory system has shown that there is an abundance of information present in temporal patterns across populations of neurons, and this information is different from that which is determined by rate coding schemes. Groups of neurons may synchronize in response to a stimulus. In studies dealing with the front cortical portion of the brain in primates, precise patterns with short time scales only a few milliseconds in length were found across small populations of neurons which correlated with certain information processing behaviors. However, little information could be determined from the patterns; one possible theory is they represented the higher-order processing taking place in the brain.<sup id="cite_ref-Zador,_Stevens_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zador,_Stevens-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>As with the visual system, in <a href="Mitral_cell" title="Mitral cell">mitral/tufted cells</a> in the <a href="Olfactory_bulb" title="Olfactory bulb">olfactory bulb</a> of mice, first-spike latency relative to the start of a sniffing action seemed to encode much of the information about an odor. This strategy of using spike latency allows for rapid identification of and reaction to an odorant. In addition, some mitral/tufted cells have specific firing patterns for given odorants. This type of extra information could help in recognizing a certain odor, but is not completely necessary, as average spike count over the course of the animal's sniffing was also a good identifier.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Along the same lines, experiments done with the olfactory system of rabbits showed distinct patterns which correlated with different subsets of odorants, and a similar result was obtained in experiments with the locust olfactory system.<sup id="cite_ref-Theunissen_F_1995_24-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Theunissen_F_1995-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Temporal_coding_applications">Temporal coding applications</h4></div>
<p>The specificity of temporal coding requires highly refined technology to measure informative, reliable, experimental data. Advances made in <a href="Optogenetics" title="Optogenetics">optogenetics</a> allow neurologists to control spikes in individual neurons, offering electrical and spatial single-cell resolution. For example, blue light causes the light-gated ion channel <a href="Channelrhodopsin" title="Channelrhodopsin">channelrhodopsin</a> to open, depolarizing the cell and producing a spike. When blue light is not sensed by the cell, the channel closes, and the neuron ceases to spike. The pattern of the spikes matches the pattern of the blue light stimuli. By inserting channelrhodopsin gene sequences into mouse DNA, researchers can control spikes and therefore certain behaviors of the mouse (e.g., making the mouse turn left).<sup id="cite_ref-youtube.com_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-youtube.com-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Researchers, through optogenetics, have the tools to effect different temporal codes in a neuron while maintaining the same mean firing rate, and thereby can test whether or not temporal coding occurs in specific neural circuits.<sup id="cite_ref-Han_X_2009_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Han_X_2009-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Optogenetic technology also has the potential to enable the correction of spike abnormalities at the root of several neurological and psychological disorders.<sup id="cite_ref-Han_X_2009_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Han_X_2009-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If neurons do encode information in individual spike timing patterns, key signals could be missed by attempting to crack the code while looking only at mean firing rates.<sup id="cite_ref-Theunissen_F_1995_24-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Theunissen_F_1995-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Understanding any temporally encoded aspects of the neural code and replicating these sequences in neurons could allow for greater control and treatment of neurological disorders such as <a href="Depression_(mood)" title="Depression (mood)">depression</a>, <a href="Schizophrenia" title="Schizophrenia">schizophrenia</a>, and <a href="Parkinson's_disease" title="Parkinson's disease">Parkinson's disease</a>. Regulation of spike intervals in single cells more precisely controls brain activity than the addition of pharmacological agents intravenously.<sup id="cite_ref-youtube.com_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-youtube.com-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Phase-of-firing_code">Phase-of-firing code</h4></div>
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<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="Phase_resetting_in_neurons" title="Phase resetting in neurons">Phase resetting in neurons</a></div>
<p>Phase-of-firing code is a neural coding scheme that combines the <a href="Action_potential" title="Action potential">spike</a> count code with a time reference based on <a href="Neural_oscillations" class="mw-redirect" title="Neural oscillations">oscillations</a>. This type of code takes into account a time label for each spike according to a time reference based on phase of local ongoing oscillations at low<sup id="cite_ref-Montemurro_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Montemurro-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or high frequencies.<sup id="cite_ref-Gamma_cycle_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gamma_cycle-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>It has been shown that neurons in some cortical sensory areas encode rich naturalistic stimuli in terms of their spike times relative to the phase of ongoing network oscillatory fluctuations, rather than only in terms of their spike count.<sup id="cite_ref-Montemurro_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Montemurro-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="Local_field_potential" title="Local field potential">local field potential</a> signals reflect population (network) oscillations. The phase-of-firing code is often categorized as a temporal code although the time label used for spikes (i.e. the network oscillation phase) is a low-resolution (coarse-grained) reference for time. As a result, often only four discrete values for the phase are enough to represent all the information content in this kind of code with respect to the phase of oscillations in low frequencies. Phase-of-firing code is loosely based on the <a href="Place_cell#Phase_precession" title="Place cell">phase precession</a> phenomena observed in place cells of the <a href="Hippocampus" title="Hippocampus">hippocampus</a>. Another feature of this code is that neurons adhere to a preferred order of spiking between a group of sensory neurons, resulting in firing sequence.<sup id="cite_ref-Firing_sequences_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Firing_sequences-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Phase code has been shown in visual cortex to involve also <a href="High_frequency_oscillations" class="mw-redirect" title="High frequency oscillations">high-frequency oscillations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Firing_sequences_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Firing_sequences-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Within a cycle of gamma oscillation, each neuron has its own preferred relative firing time. As a result, an entire population of neurons generates a firing sequence that has a duration of up to about 15 ms.<sup id="cite_ref-Firing_sequences_42-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Firing_sequences-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Population_coding">Population coding</h3></div>
<p>Population coding is a method to represent stimuli by using the joint activities of a number of neurons. In population coding, each neuron has a distribution of responses over some set of inputs, and the responses of many neurons may be combined to determine some value about the inputs. From the theoretical point of view, population coding is one of a few mathematically well-formulated problems in neuroscience. It grasps the essential features of neural coding and yet is simple enough for theoretic analysis.<sup id="cite_ref-Wu_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wu-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Experimental studies have revealed that this coding paradigm is widely used in the sensory and motor areas of the brain.
</p><p>For example, in the visual area <a href="Medial_temporal_lobe" class="mw-redirect" title="Medial temporal lobe">medial temporal</a> (MT), neurons are tuned to the direction of object motion.<sup id="cite_ref-Maunsell_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Maunsell-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In response to an object moving in a particular direction, many neurons in MT fire with a noise-corrupted and <a href="Normal_distribution" title="Normal distribution">bell-shaped</a> activity pattern across the population. The moving direction of the object is retrieved from the population activity, to be immune from the fluctuation existing in a single neuron's signal. When monkeys are trained to move a joystick towards a lit target, a single neuron will fire for multiple target directions. However it fires the fastest for one direction and more slowly depending on how close the target was to the neuron's "preferred" direction.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If each neuron represents movement in its preferred direction, and the vector sum of all neurons is calculated (each neuron has a firing rate and a preferred direction), the sum points in the direction of motion. In this manner, the population of neurons codes the signal for the motion. This particular population code is referred to as <a href="Population_vector" title="Population vector">population vector</a> coding.
</p><p>Place-time population codes, termed the averaged-localized-synchronized-response (ALSR) code, have been derived for neural representation of auditory acoustic stimuli. This exploits both the place or tuning within the auditory nerve, as well as the phase-locking within each nerve fiber auditory nerve. The first ALSR representation was for steady-state vowels;<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ALSR representations of pitch and formant frequencies in complex, non-steady state stimuli were later demonstrated for voiced-pitch,<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and formant representations in consonant-vowel syllables.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
The advantage of such representations is that global features such as pitch or formant transition profiles can be represented as global features across the entire nerve simultaneously via both rate and place coding.
</p><p>Population coding has a number of other advantages as well, including reduction of uncertainty due to neuronal <a href="Statistical_variability" class="mw-redirect" title="Statistical variability">variability</a> and the ability to represent a number of different stimulus attributes simultaneously. Population coding is also much faster than rate coding and can reflect changes in the stimulus conditions nearly instantaneously.<sup id="cite_ref-Hubel_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hubel-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Individual neurons in such a population typically have different but overlapping selectivities, so that many neurons, but not necessarily all, respond to a given stimulus.
</p><p>Typically an encoding function has a peak value such that activity of the neuron is greatest if the perceptual value is close to the peak value, and becomes reduced accordingly for values less close to the peak value. It follows that the actual perceived value can be reconstructed from the overall pattern of activity in the set of neurons. Vector coding is an example of simple averaging. A more sophisticated mathematical technique for performing such a reconstruction is the method of <a href="Maximum_likelihood" class="mw-redirect" title="Maximum likelihood">maximum likelihood</a> based on a multivariate distribution of the neuronal responses. These models can assume independence, second order correlations,
<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or even more detailed dependencies such as higher order <a href="Maximum_entropy_probability_distribution" title="Maximum entropy probability distribution">maximum entropy models</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <a href="Copula_(statistics)" title="Copula (statistics)">copulas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Correlation_coding">Correlation coding</h4></div>
<p>The correlation coding model of <a href="Neuron" title="Neuron">neuronal</a> firing claims that correlations between <a href="Action_potential" title="Action potential">action potentials</a>, or "spikes", within a spike train may carry additional information above and beyond the simple timing of the spikes. Early work suggested that correlation between spike trains can only reduce, and never increase, the total <a href="Mutual_information" title="Mutual information">mutual information</a> present in the two spike trains about a stimulus feature.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, this was later demonstrated to be incorrect. Correlation structure can increase information content if noise and signal correlations are of opposite sign.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Correlations can also carry information not present in the average firing rate of two pairs of neurons. A good example of this exists in the pentobarbital-anesthetized marmoset auditory cortex, in which a pure tone causes an increase in the number of correlated spikes, but not an increase in the mean firing rate, of pairs of neurons.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Independent-spike_coding">Independent-spike coding</h4></div>
<p>The independent-spike coding model of <a href="Neuron" title="Neuron">neuronal</a> firing claims that each individual <a href="Action_potential" title="Action potential">action potential</a>, or "spike", is independent of each other spike within the <a href="Action_potential" title="Action potential">spike train</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Dayan_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dayan-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Position_coding">Position coding</h4></div>
<p>A typical population code involves neurons with a Gaussian tuning curve whose means vary linearly with the stimulus intensity, meaning that the neuron responds most strongly (in terms of spikes per second) to a stimulus near the mean. The actual intensity could be recovered as the stimulus level corresponding to the mean of the neuron with the greatest response. However, the noise inherent in neural responses means that a maximum likelihood estimation function is more accurate.
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<p>This type of code is used to encode continuous variables such as joint position, eye position, color, or sound frequency. Any individual neuron is too noisy to faithfully encode the variable using rate coding, but an entire population ensures greater fidelity and precision. For a population of unimodal tuning curves, i.e. with a single peak, the precision typically scales linearly with the number of neurons. Hence, for half the precision, half as many neurons are required. In contrast, when the tuning curves have multiple peaks, as in <a href="Grid_cell" title="Grid cell">grid cells</a> that represent space, the precision of the population can scale exponentially with the number of neurons. This greatly reduces the number of neurons required for the same precision.<sup id="cite_ref-Mat_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mat-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Topology_of_population_dynamics">Topology of population dynamics</h4></div>
<p><a href="Dimensionality_reduction" title="Dimensionality reduction">Dimensionality reduction</a> and <a href="Topological_data_analysis" title="Topological data analysis">topological data analysis</a>, have revealed that the population code is constrained to low-dimensional manifolds,<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> sometimes also referred to as <a href="Attractors" class="mw-redirect" title="Attractors">attractors</a>. The position along the neural manifold correlates to certain behavioral conditions like head direction neurons in the anterodorsal thalamic nucleus forming a ring structure,<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Grid_cells" class="mw-redirect" title="Grid cells">grid cells</a> encoding spatial position in <a href="Entorhinal_cortex" title="Entorhinal cortex">entorhinal cortex</a> along the surface of a <a href="Torus" title="Torus">torus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <a href="Motor_cortex" title="Motor cortex">motor cortex</a> neurons encoding hand movements<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and preparatory activity.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The low-dimensional manifolds are known to change in a state dependent manner, such as eye closure in the <a href="Visual_cortex" title="Visual cortex">visual cortex</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or breathing behavior in the ventral respiratory column.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sparse_coding">Sparse coding</h3></div>
<p>The sparse code is when each item is encoded by the strong activation of a relatively small set of neurons. For each item to be encoded, this is a different subset of all available neurons. In contrast to sensor-sparse coding, sensor-dense coding implies that all information from possible sensor locations is known.
</p><p>As a consequence, sparseness may be focused on temporal sparseness ("a relatively small number of time periods are active") or on the sparseness in an activated population of neurons. In this latter case, this may be defined in one time period as the number of activated neurons relative to the total number of neurons in the population. This seems to be a hallmark of neural computations since compared to traditional computers, information is massively distributed across neurons. Sparse coding of natural images produces <a href="Wavelet" title="Wavelet">wavelet</a>-like oriented filters that resemble the <a href="Receptive_field" title="Receptive field">receptive fields</a> of simple cells in the visual cortex.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The capacity of sparse codes may be increased by simultaneous use of temporal coding, as found in the locust olfactory system.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Given a potentially large set of input patterns, sparse coding algorithms (e.g. <a href="Autoencoder#Sparse_autoencoder_(SAE)" title="Autoencoder">sparse autoencoder</a>) attempt to automatically find a small number of representative patterns which, when combined in the right proportions, reproduce the original input patterns. The sparse coding for the input then consists of those representative patterns. For example, the very large set of English sentences can be encoded by a small number of symbols (i.e. letters, numbers, punctuation, and spaces) combined in a particular order for a particular sentence, and so a sparse coding for English would be those symbols.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Linear_generative_model">Linear generative model</h4></div>
<p>Most models of sparse coding are based on the linear generative model.<sup id="cite_ref-Rehn_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rehn-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In this model, the symbols are combined in a <a href="Linear_combination" title="Linear combination">linear fashion</a> to approximate the input.
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</p><p>The codings generated by algorithms implementing a linear generative model can be classified into codings with <i>soft sparseness</i> and those with <i>hard sparseness</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Rehn_68-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rehn-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These refer to the distribution of basis vector coefficients for typical inputs. A coding with soft sparseness has a smooth <a href="Normal_distribution" title="Normal distribution">Gaussian</a>-like distribution, but peakier than Gaussian, with many zero values, some small absolute values, fewer larger absolute values, and very few very large absolute values. Thus, many of the basis vectors are active. Hard sparseness, on the other hand, indicates that there are many zero values, <i>no</i> or <i>hardly any</i> small absolute values, fewer larger absolute values, and very few very large absolute values, and thus few of the basis vectors are active. This is appealing from a metabolic perspective: less energy is used when fewer neurons are firing.<sup id="cite_ref-Rehn_68-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rehn-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Another measure of coding is whether it is <i>critically complete</i> or <i>overcomplete</i>. If the number of basis vectors n is equal to the dimensionality k of the input set, the coding is said to be critically complete. In this case, smooth changes in the input vector result in abrupt changes in the coefficients, and the coding is not able to gracefully handle small scalings, small translations, or noise in the inputs. If, however, the number of basis vectors is larger than the dimensionality of the input set, the coding is <i>overcomplete</i>. Overcomplete codings smoothly interpolate between input vectors and are robust under input noise.<sup id="cite_ref-Olshausen_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Olshausen-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The human primary <a href="Visual_cortex" title="Visual cortex">visual cortex</a> is estimated to be overcomplete by a factor of 500, so that, for example, a 14 x 14 patch of input (a 196-dimensional space) is coded by roughly 100,000 neurons.<sup id="cite_ref-Rehn_68-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rehn-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Other models are based on <a href="Matching_pursuit" title="Matching pursuit">matching pursuit</a>, a <a href="Sparse_approximation" title="Sparse approximation">sparse approximation</a> algorithm which finds the "best matching" projections of multidimensional data, and <a href="Sparse_dictionary_learning" title="Sparse dictionary learning">dictionary learning</a>, a representation learning method which aims to find a <a href="Sparse_matrix" title="Sparse matrix">sparse matrix</a> representation of the input data in the form of a linear combination of basic elements as well as those basic elements themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Biological_evidence">Biological evidence</h4></div>
<p>Sparse coding may be a general strategy of neural systems to augment memory capacity. To adapt to their environments, animals must learn which stimuli are associated with rewards or punishments and distinguish these reinforced stimuli from similar but irrelevant ones. Such tasks require implementing stimulus-specific <a href="Associative_memory_(psychology)" title="Associative memory (psychology)">associative memories</a> in which only a few neurons out of a <a href="Neural_ensemble" class="mw-redirect" title="Neural ensemble">population</a> respond to any given stimulus and each neuron responds to only a few stimuli out of all possible stimuli.
</p><p>Theoretical work on <a href="Sparse_distributed_memory" title="Sparse distributed memory">sparse distributed memory</a> has suggested that sparse coding increases the capacity of associative memory by reducing overlap between representations.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Experimentally, sparse representations of sensory information have been observed in many systems, including vision,<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> audition,<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> touch,<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and olfaction.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, despite the accumulating evidence for widespread sparse coding and theoretical arguments for its importance, a demonstration that sparse coding improves the stimulus-specificity of associative memory has been difficult to obtain.
</p><p>In the <i><a href="Drosophila" title="Drosophila">Drosophila</a></i> <a href="Olfactory_system" title="Olfactory system">olfactory system</a>, sparse odor coding by the <a href="Kenyon_cell" title="Kenyon cell">Kenyon cells</a> of the <a href="Mushroom_bodies" title="Mushroom bodies">mushroom body</a> is thought to generate a large number of precisely addressable locations for the storage of odor-specific memories.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sparseness is controlled by a negative feedback circuit between Kenyon cells and <a href="GABAergic" title="GABAergic">GABAergic</a> anterior paired lateral (APL) neurons. Systematic activation and blockade of each leg of this feedback circuit shows that Kenyon cells activate APL neurons and APL neurons inhibit Kenyon cells. Disrupting the Kenyon cell–APL feedback loop decreases the sparseness of Kenyon cell odor responses, increases inter-odor correlations, and prevents flies from learning to discriminate similar, but not dissimilar, odors. These results suggest that feedback inhibition suppresses Kenyon cell activity to maintain sparse, decorrelated odor coding and thus the odor-specificity of memories.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
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<li><a href="Autoencoder" title="Autoencoder">Autoencoder</a></li>
<li><a href="Biological_neuron_model" title="Biological neuron model">Biological neuron model</a></li>
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<li><a href="Feature_integration_theory" title="Feature integration theory">Feature integration theory</a></li>
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<li><a href="Neural_oscillation" title="Neural oscillation">Neural oscillation</a></li>
<li><a href="Receptive_field" title="Receptive field">Receptive field</a></li>
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<li><a href="Vector_quantization" title="Vector quantization">Vector quantization</a></li>
<li><a href="Representational_drift" title="Representational drift">Representational drift</a></li></ul>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div>
<ul><li>Földiák P, Endres D, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Sparse_Coding">Sparse coding</a>, <a href="Scholarpedia" title="Scholarpedia">Scholarpedia</a>, 3(1):2984, 2008.</li>
<li>Dayan P & Abbott LF. <i>Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems</i>. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press; 2001. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-262-04199-5</bdi></li>
<li>Rieke F, Warland D, de Ruyter van Steveninck R, Bialek W. <i>Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code</i>. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press; 1999. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-262-68108-0</bdi></li>
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