Spatially embedded recurrent neural networks reveal widespread links between structural and functional neuroscience findings

J Achterberg, D Akarca, DJ Strouse, J Duncan… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Brain networks exist within the confines of resource limitations. As a result, a brain network
must overcome the metabolic costs of growing and sustaining the network within its physical …

SORN: a self-organizing recurrent neural network

A Lazar, G Pipa, J Triesch - Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2009 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the dynamics of recurrent neural networks is crucial for explaining how the
brain processes information. In the neocortex, a range of different plasticity mechanisms are …

Growing brains: Co-emergence of anatomical and functional modularity in recurrent neural networks

Z Liu, M Khona, IR Fiete, M Tegmark - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.07711, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) trained on compositional tasks can exhibit functional
modularity, in which neurons can be clustered by activity similarity and participation in …

[HTML][HTML] Bio-instantiated recurrent neural networks: Integrating neurobiology-based network topology in artificial networks

A Goulas, F Damicelli, CC Hilgetag - Neural Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Biological neuronal networks (BNNs) are a source of inspiration and analogy making for
researchers that focus on artificial neuronal networks (ANNs). Moreover, neuroscientists …

Latent circuit inference from heterogeneous neural responses during cognitive tasks

C Langdon, TA Engel - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Higher cortical areas carry a wide range of sensory, cognitive, and motor signals supporting
complex goal-directed behavior. These signals are mixed in heterogeneous responses of …

Gradient-based learning drives robust representations in recurrent neural networks by balancing compression and expansion

M Farrell, S Recanatesi, T Moore, G Lajoie… - Nature Machine …, 2022 - nature.com
Neural networks need the right representations of input data to learn. Here we ask how
gradient-based learning shapes a fundamental property of representations in recurrent …

Brain connectivity meets reservoir computing

F Damicelli, CC Hilgetag, A Goulas - PLoS computational biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The connectivity of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) is different from the one observed in
Biological Neural Networks (BNNs). Can the wiring of actual brains help improve ANNs …

Universality and individuality in neural dynamics across large populations of recurrent networks

N Maheswaranathan, A Williams… - Advances in neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Many recent studies have employed task-based modeling with recurrent neural networks
(RNNs) to infer the computational function of different brain regions. These models are often …

A mechanistic multi-area recurrent network model of decision-making

M Kleinman, C Chandrasekaran… - Advances in neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) trained on neuroscience-based tasks have been widely
used as models for cortical areas performing analogous tasks. However, very few tasks …

Engineering recurrent neural networks from task-relevant manifolds and dynamics

E Pollock, M Jazayeri - PLoS computational biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Many cognitive processes involve transformations of distributed representations in neural
populations, creating a need for population-level models. Recurrent neural network models …