Simultaneous recordings from large neural populations are becoming increasingly common.
An important feature of population activity is the trial-to-trial correlated fluctuation of spike …

Human and non-human animal behavior is highly malleable and adapts successfully to
internal and external demands. Such behavioral success stands in striking contrast to the …

Large-scale neural recordings have established that the transformation of sensory stimuli
into motor outputs relies on low-dimensional dynamics at the population level, while …

In the neocortex, neural activity is shaped by the interaction of excitatory and inhibitory
neurons, defined by the organization of their synaptic connections. Although connections …

Correlated variability in cortical activity is ubiquitously quenched following stimulus onset, in
a stimulus-dependent manner. These modulations have been attributed to circuit dynamics …

We explore the spectra and localization properties of the N-site banded one-dimensional
non-Hermitian random matrices that arise naturally in sparse neural networks …

Local moment-to-moment variability exists at every level of neural organization, but its
driving forces remain opaque. Inspired by animal work demonstrating that local temporal …

Highlights•Metastable activity is increasingly being observed in many cortical areas and in a
variety of tasks.•Metastable activity is correlated with sensory and cognitive processes and …

In ambiguous or conflicting sensory situations, perception is often 'multistable'in that it
perpetually changes at irregular intervals, shifting abruptly between distinct alternatives. The …

Neuronal variability patterns promote the formation and organization of neural circuits.
Macroscale similarities in regional variability patterns may therefore be linked to the strength …