Topic: neural firing rates

Efficient coding theory, which stipulates that the nervous system attempts to minimize redundancy in stimulus coding, has proven widely successful in predicting observed features in early sensory systems, including center-surround receptive fields (RFs), ON and OFF parallel pathways, and the relative arrangement of ON and OFF RF mosaics. However, relatively limited work has addressed the encoding of spatiotemporal stimuli. Ocko et al. (2018) examined spatiotemporal encoding in the retina using an approach based on a convolutional autoencoder, replicating known features of retinal ganglion cell