Abstract
The father of the digital computer, J. VON NEUMANN, raised the problem of constructing a reliable brain from unreliable nerve cells [1]. One solution is to code the same information in many parallel channels, but a second possibility is to use the individual nerve cells as efficiently as possible by coding information in ways that minimise their faults. A first step towards efficiency is the elimination of redundancy from the incoming data [2,3,4,5,6] and a second is to code the essential messages in ways that fully exploit neuronal signalling capacity [5]; a procedure that often reduces the redundancy in a nerve cell’s response.
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Laughlin, S. (1983). Matching Coding to Scenes to Enhance Efficiency. In: Braddick, O.J., Sleigh, A.C. (eds) Physical and Biological Processing of Images. Springer Series in Information Sciences, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68888-1_4
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