Our understanding of neural codes rests on Shannon's foundations

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42 (2019)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Shannon's theory lays the foundation for understanding the flow of information from world into brain: There must be a set of possible messages. Brain structure determines what they are. Many messages convey quantitative facts. It is impossible to consider how neural tissue processes these numbers without first considering how it encodes them.

Categories

Add categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1017/s0140525x19001249

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 100,888

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Where meanings arise and how: Building on Shannon's foundations.Charles R. Gallistel - 2020 - Mind and Language 35 (3):390-401.
Neural codes – Necessary but not sufficient for understanding brain function.Simon R. Schultz & Giuseppe P. Gava - 2019 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42.
Information and the function of neurons.Marc Burock - 2011
The transmission of parameters by neural messages.T. D. M. Roberts - 1978 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1 (1):159-160.
Pluripotentiality, epigenesis, and language acquisition.Bob Jacobs & Lori Larsen - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):639-639.
Messages, media and codes.W. R. Uttal - 1981 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (2):207-208.
Neural spaces: A general framework for the understanding of cognition?Shimon Edelman - 2001 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (4):664-665.
Synthetic approaches to cognitive neuroscience.Olaf Sporns - 2000 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (4):548-549.
Neural behaviorism: From brain evolution to human emotion at the speed of an action potential.Jaak Panksepp - 2000 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (2):212-213.
Is coding a relevant metaphor for the brain?Romain Brette - 2019 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42:1-44.

Analytics

Added to PP
2019-11-29

Downloads
20 (#1,038,527)

6 months
5 (#1,038,502)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

Add more citations

References found in this work

The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology.[author unknown] - 1980 - Journal of the History of Biology 13 (1):141-158.
Surface color perception and environmental constraints.Laurence T. Maloney - 2003 - In Rainer Mausfeld & Dieter Heyer (eds.), Colour Perception: Mind and the Physical World. Oxford University Press. pp. 279--300.

Add more references