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dc.contributor.authorFoldiak, Pen
dc.contributor.authorEndres, D Men
dc.coverage.spatial2984en
dc.date.accessioned2008-05-28T08:15:13Z
dc.date.available2008-05-28T08:15:13Z
dc.date.issued2008en
dc.identifier.citationScholarpedia 3(1): 2984 January 2008en
dc.identifier.otherStAndrews.ResExp.Output.OutputID.17616en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/494
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Sparse_coding
dc.descriptionThe(frequently updated) original version is avalable at http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Sparse_codingen
dc.description.abstractMammalian brains consist of billions of neurons, each capable of independent electrical activity. Information in the brain is represented by the pattern of activation of this large neural population, forming a neural code. The neural code defines what pattern of neural activity corresponds to each represented information item. In the sensory system, such items may indicate the presence of a stimulus object or the value of some stimulus parameter, assuming that each time this item is represented the neural activity pattern will be the same or at least similar. One important and relatively simple property of this code is the fraction of neurons that are strongly active at any one time. For a set of N binary neurons (which can either be 'active' or 'inactive'), the average (i.e., expected value) of this fraction across all information items is the sparseness of the code. This average fraction can vary from close to 0 to about 1/2. Average fractions above 1/2 can always be decreased below 1/2 without loss of information by replacing each active neuron with an inactive one, and vice versa. Sparse coding is the representation of items by the strong activation of a relatively small set of neurons. For each stimulus, this is a different subset of all available neurons.en
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dc.subjectsparse codingen
dc.subjectcomputational neuroscienceen
dc.subjectneuronsen
dc.subjectneural codeen
dc.titleSparse codingen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.audience.mediatorSchool : Psychologyen
dc.publicationstatusPublisheden
dc.statusPeer revieweden


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