Intended for neurobiologists with an interest in mathematical analysis of neural data as well as physicists and mathematicians interested in information processing by "real" nervous systems, this text presents a review of relevant concepts in information theory and statistical decision theory.[...]
Interactions between the fields of physics and biology reach back over a century, and some of the most significant developments in biology - from the discovery of DNA's structure to imaging of the human brain - have involved collaboration across this disciplinary boundary. For a new generation of ph[...]