Preprint available

[Simon Schultz]

Dear Connectionists,

Preprints of the following paper are available via WWW. It is to appear
in a Cambridge Univ. Press book in 1998 entitled "Information Theory and
the Brain", edited by R. Baddeley, P. Hancock and P. Foldiak.

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF A SCHAFFER COLLATERAL MODEL

S. Schultz(1), S. Panzeri(1), E.T. Rolls(1) and A. Treves(2)

(1) Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK.
(2) Programme in Neuroscience, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.

Abstract:

Advances in techniques for the formal analysis of neural networks have
introduced the possibility of detailed quantitative analyses of brain
circuitry. This paper applies a method for calculating mutual
information to the analysis of the Schaffer collateral connections
between regions CA3 and CA1 of the hippocampus. Attention is given to
the introduction of further details of anatomy and physiology to the
calculation: in particular, the distribution of the number of
connections CA1 neurons receive from CA3, and the graded nature of the
firing-rate distribution in region CA3.

16 pages, 5 figures.
http://www.mrc-bbc.ox.ac.uk/~schultz/sch.ps.gz


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