It has been widely accepted that spiking neurons code information in their firing rates 1. A related assumption is that each neuron serves as an independent channel transmitting information from one ...
Noise limits the efficiency of information transfer. But correlations of the intervals between signal pulses can reduce low-frequency noise and thereby increase the transfer of information.
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