PMID: 9169539Jun 15, 1997Paper

Encoding of visual motion information and reliability in spiking and graded potential neurons

The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Juergen Haag, Alexander Borst

Abstract

We investigated the information about stimulus velocity inherent in the membrane signals of two types of directionally selective, motion-sensitive interneurons in the fly visual system. One of the cells, the H1-cell, is a spiking neuron, whereas the other, the HS-cell, encodes sensory information mainly by a graded shift of its membrane potential. Using a pseudo-random velocity waveform by which a visual grating is moving along the horizontal axis of the eye, both cell types follow the stimulus velocity at higher precision than in response to a step-like velocity function. To measure how much information about the stimulus velocity is preserved in the cellular responses, we calculated the coherence between the stimulus and the neural signals as a function of stimulus frequency. At frequencies up to approximately 10 Hz motion information is well contained in the electrical signals of HS- and H1-cells: For HS-cells the coherence value amounts to approximately 70%, and for H1-cells this value is approximately 60%. Comparing these values with the coherence expected from a linear encoding reveals that the fidelity of the original stimulus is deteriorated in the neural signal partly by neural noise and partly by the nonlinearity inhe...Continue Reading

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