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Synaptic unreliability facilitates information transmission in balanced cortical populations

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Ecker,  Alexander S
Department Physiology of Cognitive Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Bethge,  Matthias
Research Group Computational Vision and Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Gatys, L., Ecker, A. S., Tchumatchenko, T., & Bethge, M. (2014). Synaptic unreliability facilitates information transmission in balanced cortical populations. In 15th Conference of Junior Neuroscientists of Tübingen (NeNa 2014): The Changing Face of Publishing and Scientific Evaluation (pp. 11-11).


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0001-3356-5
Abstract
Cortical neurons fire in a highly irregular manner, suggesting that their input is tightly balanced and changes in presynaptic firing rate are encoded primarily in the variance of the postsynaptic currents. Here we show that such balance has a surprising effect on information transmission: Synaptic unreliability which is ubiquitous in cortex and usually thought to impair neural communication actually increases the information rate. We show that the beneficial effect of noise is based on a very general mechanism which contrary to stochastic resonance does not rely on a threshold nonlinearity.