# Astrocyte-induced positive integrated information in neuroglial ensembles

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02788 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.02788/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 8 Aug 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Astrocytes mediate analogous memory in a multi-layer neuron-astrocytic network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.13414/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The Integrated Information is a quantitative measure from information theory how tightly all parts of a system are interconnected in terms of information exchange. In this study we show that astrocyte, playing an important role in regulation of information transmission between neurons, may contribute to a generation of positive Integrated Information in neuronal ensembles. Analytically and numerically we show that the presence of astrocyte may be essential for this information attribute in neuro-astrocytic ensembles. Moreover, the proposed "spiking-bursting" mechanism of generating positive Integrated Information is shown to be generic and not limited to neuroglial networks, and is given a complete analytic description.