Dynamical Entropies in Assemblies of Neurons

Project Information

DEAN

Grant agreement ID: 11434

Project closed

Start date 1 November 2004

End date 31 October 2006

Funded under

• Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006

Total cost No data

EU contribution € 136 942,00

Coordinated by

ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA APPLICATA
Italy

Objective

The final aim of the present project will be to gain some comprehension of how the brain stores and processes information. By considering the brain as a high dimensional non-linear system, we plan to apply information-theoretic and dynamical tools to characterize the response of single neurons as well as of neuronal assemblies to different classes of external (deterministic and stochastic) excitations. Data measured in experiments and generated by simulating networks of various sizes will be examined and compared. The information content of the experimental and numerical time series will be estimated by computing dynamical entropies and mutual information for different variables and levels of resolution.

Keywords

• Information Theoretic Tools (Entropies)
• Neural Networks
• Single Neuron Dynamics

Programme(s)

• FP6-MOBILITY - Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006

Topic(s)

• MOBILITY-2.1 - Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships (EIF)

Call for proposal

FP6-2002-MOBILITY-5
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Funding Scheme

EIF - Marie Curie actions-Intra-European Fellowships

Coordinator

ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA APPLICATA

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Largo E. Fermi, n. 6 ; FIRENZE ; Italy
• Total cost: No data