[CompNeuro] COBRA seminar June 4th: Ehud Kaplan - Estimating the amount of information transmitted by a neuronal population

[Jaroslav Hlinka]

Dear colleagues,

let me invite you to an upcoming event at the Department of Complex 
Systems, ICS CAS:

Complex Networks and Brain Dynamics Seminar - 4 June, 2019, 16:00

** Estimating the amount of information transmitted by a neuronal 
population **

                          prof. Ehud Kaplan
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY and Charles University, Prague and 
NUDZ, Klecany.


Information Theory (as defined by C. Shannon) has been used to estimate 
the amount of entropy and information in data from single neurons. 
However, when dealing with a population of neurons, even a small one, a 
combinatorial explosion thwarted such estimates. We have solved this 
problem, and our solution now makes it possible to address some 
fundamental questions inneuroscience which were beyond reach previously. 
I shall describe the problem, the solution and its possible application 
in neuroscience.


Where: Room 318 (2nd floor), Institute of Computer Science, CAS CZ,
        Pod Vodárenskou věží 2, Prague 8 ( _http://goo.gl/maps/gY3NZ_)

Seminars webpage: _http://cobra.cs.cas.cz/seminar_


-- 
Jaroslav Hlinka
Head of the Department of Complex Systems
Institute of Computer Science
Czech Academy of Sciences
Pod Vodarenskou vezi 2
Prague 8, 182 07, Czech Republic

Tel: (+420) 26605 3808
E-mail:hlinka at cs.cas.cz
Web:http://cs.cas.cz/hlinka

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