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The paper deals with information transmission in large systems of neurons. We model the membrane potential in a single neuron belonging to a cell tissue by a non time-homogeneous Cox-Ingersoll-Ross type diffusion; in terms of its time-varying expectation, this stochastic process can convey deterministic signals.
We model the spike train emitted by this neuron as a Poisson point process compensated by the occupation time of the membrane potential process beyond the excitation threshold.
In a large system of neurons 1≤i≤N processing independently the same deterministic signal, we prove a functional central limit theorem for the pooled spike train collected from the N neurons. This pooled spike train allows to recover the deterministic signal, up to some shape transformation which is explicit.
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Höpfner, R., Brodda, K. A stochastic model and a functional central limit theorem for information processing in large systems of neurons. J. Math. Biol. 52, 439–457 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-005-0361-3
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