Table 2.

Normalized mutual information of response features with stimulus properties (mean ± SD)

CellsCountLatencySum countLatency diff
Encoding task: 9 locations
    Fixed Int & Dur
        10 mN, 200 msT0.35 ± 0.120.49 ± 0.150.30 ± 0.110.73 ± 0.12
        10 mN, 200 msP0.35 ± 0.070.36 ± 0.070.25 ± 0.070.45 ± 0.12
        50 mN, 200 msT0.33 ± 0.040.51 ± 0.160.28 ± 0.080.61 ± 0.09
        50 mN, 200 msP0.36 ± 0.040.49 ± 0.100.33 ± 0.060.62 ± 0.09
Encoding task: 5 intensities
    Fixed Loc & Dur
        0°, 200 msT0.44 ± 0.150.46 ± 0.160.48 ± 0.150.28 ± 0.17
        0°, 200 msP0.40 ± 0.090.39 ± 0.120.47 ± 0.110.25 ± 0.11
        0°, 200 msP-T0.52 ± 0.180.38 ± 0.11
Encoding task: 3 locations and 2 intensities
    Fixed time
        200 msT0.38 ± 0.140.56 ± 0.070.36 ± 0.110.71 ± 0.08
        200 msP0.53 ± 0.140.49 ± 0.150.52 ± 0.130.52 ± 0.20
  • Bold numbers indicate the response feature with the highest mutual information obtained for the estimation task. Sum, Summed; Diff, difference; Int, Intensity; Loc, location; Dur, duration. Estimation tasks correspond to the stimulation protocols listed in Table 1.