Dear Colleagues,

In an exciting confluence, information flows in neural networks—both artificial and natural—are garnering immense interest. While the term information flow is used frequently in practical contexts, such as clinical neuroscience or the optimization/interpretation of artificial neural networks, fundamental exploration of the topic has received limited attention. Societal implications of defining, understanding, designing, and/or affecting information flows are deep and broad, influencing all aspects of our lives. Many of these issues require careful and rigorous approaches that have only recently begun being developed.

This Special Issue focuses on core information theoretic issues pertaining to flows of information in natural and artificial neural networks. Information theory here is to be interpreted broadly, including, for instance, classical (Shannon) information theory, algorithmic information theory, control theory, and integrated information theory. The issue is intended to have a balanced representation between natural and artificial worlds, and papers connecting the two, or critiquing the perceived connection between the two, are also of interest. The Special Issue solicits papers that are, in their essence, intellectual and/or theoretical, although demonstration on real or synthetic datasets is encouraged when possible.
This Special Issue will assimilate the current approaches to the following (and related) topics:

• Axiomatic definitions, measures and/or estimators of information flow in neural systems;
• Models for controlling information flow;
• Scalability of information flow methods in high dimensional neural systems;
• Analysis and extensions of established information flow measures;
• Models of information flow in clinical neuroscientific settings;
• Connections between information flow and causality;
• Measurement of information flow in multimodal neural datasets;
• Relationships between artificial and natural neural systems.

Prof. Pulkit Grover
Prof. Christopher Quinn
Dr. Gabriel Schamberg
Guest Editors

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• Information flow
• Neuroscience
• Artificial neural networks
• Information theory
• Control and dynamical systems
• Integrated information