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- Title
Quantifying Information Modification in Developing Neural Networks via Partial Information Decomposition.
- Authors
Wibral, Michael; Finn, Conor; Wollstadt, Patricia; Lizier, Joseph T.; Priesemann, Viola
- Abstract
Information processing performed by any system can be conceptually decomposed into the transfer, storage and modification of information--an idea dating all the way back to the work of Alan Turing. However, formal information theoretic definitions until very recently were only available for information transfer and storage, not for modification. This has changed with the extension of Shannon information theory via the decomposition of the mutual information between inputs to and the output of a process into unique, shared and synergistic contributions from the inputs, called a partial information decomposition (PID). The synergistic contribution in particular has been identified as the basis for a definition of information modification. We here review the requirements for a functional definition of information modification in neuroscience, and apply a recently proposed measure of information modification to investigate the developmental trajectory of information modification in a culture of neurons vitro, using partial information decomposition. We found that modification rose with maturation, but ultimately collapsed when redundant information among neurons took over. This indicates that this particular developing neural system initially developed intricate processing capabilities, but ultimately displayed information processing that was highly similar across neurons, possibly due to a lack of external inputs. We close by pointing out the enormous promise PID and the analysis of information modification hold for the understanding of neural systems.
- Subjects
INFORMATION processing; KNOWLEDGE transfer; ARTIFICIAL neural networks; NEUROSCIENCES; NEURONS
- Publication
Entropy, 2017, Vol 19, Issue 9, p494
- ISSN
1099-4300
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/e19090494