Table 1.

Analysis of effect of bin width on measures of information in the transient and sustained portions of MT neuron responses

Information from counts in time windows
Bin width (msec) Peak information in transient period window across cells (bits) Mean information in sustained period windows across cells (bits) Information transient/sustained ratio
Range Mean Median Range Mean Median n Range Mean Median
4 0.01-0.34 0.10 0.09 0-0.19 0.04 0.03 27 0.4-10.8 3.5 2.7
8 0.02-0.58 0.19 0.18 0.01-0.34 0.08 0.06 27 0.8-8.6 3.0 2.5
16 0.03-0.79 0.30 0.26 0.02-0.56 0.15 0.12 27 0.6-8.1 2.7 2.1
20 0.04-0.83 0.34 0.28 0.02-0.62 0.18 0.14 27 0.5-7.5 2.6 2.3
32 0.06-0.94 0.42 0.37 0.03-0.74 0.24 0.22 27 0.6-6.5 2.3 2.0
64 0.11-0.96 0.46 0.43 0.06-0.88 0.35 0.36 27 0.4-4.4 1.6 1.3
Information per spike in time windows
Bin width (msec) Peak information per spike in transient period across cells (n = 27) (bits/spike) Mean information per spike in sustained period across cells (n = 27) (bits/spike) Information per spike transient/sustained ratio
Range Mean Median Range Mean Median n Range Mean Median
4 0-1.54 0.67 0.64 0.06-1.09 0.44 0.43 26 1.0-6.5 2.1 1.6
8 0.04-1.44 0.66 0.70 0.06-1.04 0.44 0.43 27 0.7-4.8 1.7 1.5
16 0.06-1.27 0.57 0.58 0.04-0.94 0.42 0.41 27 0.6-4.9 1.6 1.4
20 0.03-1.15 0.53 0.53 0.04-0.92 0.41 0.39 27 0.5-5.0 1.5 1.3
32 0.04-1.01 0.43 0.46 0.03-0.80 0.36 0.39 27 0.4-2.7 1.3 1.2
64 0.02-0.89 0.33 0.32 0.02-0.59 0.28 0.29 27 0.2-1.9 1.2 1.2