ABSTRACT
What role does timing play in communicating information throughout nervous systems? This question is usually coupled with other questions about the biological coding of sensory information. Here, we discuss temporal dynamics as both a signal to be communicated, and a method to communicate information. When information about stimulus identity is explicitly decoupled from information about other stimulus parameters (e.g., timing), the analysis and our understanding of neural function improve. In this chapter, the core question we ask is whether detailed spike patterns
8.1 Introduction .................................................................................................. 185 8.2 Results ........................................................................................................... 188
8.2.1 Variability in Stimulus-Response Latency ...................................... 188 8.2.2 Measurement of Pattern Variability ................................................. 194 8.2.3 Statistics of Doublet Activity ............................................................ 198 8.2.4 Contribution of Pattern Variability to Information Transmission .... 199
8.2.4.1 Modeling of ISI Timing Precision ..................................... 199 8.2.5 What Do Patterns Represent? ...........................................................204 8.2.6 Is It Just a Compressive Nonlinearity? .............................................207 8.2.7 What Are the Deviations from Linearity? ........................................207
