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We present a simple, biologically plausible technique for reconstructing a continuous time-varying signal from interspike intervals. This method is used to show that a model retinal ganglion cell spike generator can preserve most of the information about time-varying stimuli in single interspike intervals. The decoding method works best when the Nyquist criterion is satisfied, i.e., by filtering the input signal to a bandwidth less than half the average spike rate.
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August, D.A., Levy, W.B. (1995). Information Maintenance by Retinal Ganglion Cell Spikes. In: Bower, J.M. (eds) The Neurobiology of Computation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2235-5_7
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