To understand complex brain processes, there is a clear need to shift from traditional single-cell studies of trial-averaged responses to single-trial analyses of multiple neurons. In this respect, ...

Philosophy of Science, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Sep., 1998), pp. 472-501 (30 pages) Information theory offers a measure of "mutual information" which provides an appropriate measure of tracking efficiency for ...

In a video from the early 1950s, Bell Labs scientist Claude Shannon demonstrates one of his new inventions: a toy mouse named Theseus that looks like it could be a wind-up. The gaunt Shannon, looking ...

This is Part 4 of a five-part series. Integrated information theory (IIT) is a theory of consciousness. It was first formulated by the neuroscientist and psychiatrist Giulio Tononi in the early 2000s ...

Tim Bayne is affiliated with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). Science is hard. The science of consciousness is particularly hard, beset with philosophical difficulties and a ...

Abraham Moles's newly translated Information Theory and Esthetic Perception is a book with one interesting idea, which emerges, crablike, from the murky burrow of Chapter Five. The idea is that ...

The Information, written by James Gleick, covers nearly everything — jungle drums, language, Morse code, telegraphy, telephony, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, genetics and more — as it relates to ...