Directed Information Measures in Neuroscience

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wibral, Michael (Editor), Vicente, Raul (Editor), Lizier, Joseph T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Coding theory.; Complexity, Computational.; Biomedical engineering.; Complexity.; Coding and Information Theory.; Biomedical Engineering.

Analysis of information transfer has found rapid adoption in neuroscience, where a highly dynamic transfer of information continuously runs on top of the brain's slowly-changing anatomical connectivity. Measuring such transfer is crucial to understanding how flexible information routing and pro...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Introduction to Directed Information Measures
• Part II Information Transfer in Neural and Other Physiological Systems
• Part III Recent Advances in the Analysis of Information Processing.