The collective activity of a population of neurons, beyond the properties of individual cells, is
crucial for many brain functions. A fundamental question is how activity correlations between …

Brain function involves the activity of neuronal populations. Much recent effort has been
devoted to measuring the activity of neuronal populations in different parts of the brain under …

How the brain encodes information in population activity, and how it combines and
manipulates that activity as it carries out computations, are questions that lie at the heart of …

Recent psychophysical experiments indicate that humans perform near-optimal Bayesian
inference in a wide variety of tasks, ranging from cue integration to decision making to motor …

▪ Abstract In the vertebrate nervous system, sensory stimuli are typically encoded through
the concerted activity of large populations of neurons. Classically, these patterns of activity …

Visual function depends on the accuracy of signals carried by visual cortical neurons.
Combining information across neurons should improve this accuracy because single neuron …

Neurons in the CA1 area of the mouse hippocampus encode the position of the animal in an
environment. However, given the variability in individual neurons responses, the accuracy of …

Analysis of data from neurophysiological investigations can be challenging. Particularly
when experiments involve dynamics of neuronal response, scientific inference can become …

Decoding the activity of a population of neurons is a fundamental problem in neuroscience.
A key aspect of this problem is determining whether correlations in the activity, ie, noise …

Response variability is often correlated across populations of neurons, and these noise
correlations may play a role in information coding. In previous studies, this possibility has …