The multifractal fly: a dynamically multilayered visual system

Abstract

We dynamically analyze our experimental results on the motion sensitive spiking H1 neuron of the fly's visual system. We find that the fly uses an alphabet composed of a few letters to encode the information contained in the stimulus. The {\em alphabet dynamics} is multifractal both with and without stimulus, though the multifractality increases with the stimulus entropy. This is in sharp contrast to models generating independent spike-intervals, whose dynamics is monofractal.

4 pages, 5 figures