Chunk #22 — Materials and Methods — Experimental design and statistical analysis — Mutual information (MI) of individual neurons

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Encoding of the Intent to Drink Alcohol by the Prefrontal Cortex Is Blunted in Rats with a Family History of Excessive Drinking.

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For each neuron, time bin, and encoding type (drink encoding and trial encoding), we calculated the MI using Equation 1:(1)Ii,t(x,y)=∑x,ypi,t(x,y)log2(pi,t(x,y)pi,t(x)pi,t(y)).