Information in a Network of Neuronal Cells: Effect of Cell Density and Short-Term Depression

Figure 4

Entropy is a measure of the variability of a signal. In each neural site, the signal is registered like a sequence of 0/1 binary events: signals are encoded in bits (a). The number of occurrences of a bit in a sequence is the probability that a bit is generated, from the probability; entropy may be derived (b).

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