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by SubiculumCode 622 days ago
Very Nice. --from a Connectome-Centric neuroimager :) One technique that I am pursuing right now is information decomposition of timeseries to separate the mutual information of two timeseries into redundant and synergistic informational atoms (synnergystic here means the degree to which knowing both timeseries gives you more information than the individual parts give (more than sum of parts). The big limitation of the method is the geometric explosion in complexity of the decomposition as the number of time series grow, with most analyses being limited to two or three times series at a time. However, the scale of the data on which it is applied is not requisite, meaning the approach can equally be used on the mutual information between two regions of interest in rsfMRI , or two spiking timeseries from individual neurons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_information_decomposit...