[HTML][HTML] Computational methods to study information processing in neural circuits

V Koren, G Bondanelli, S Panzeri - Computational and Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
The brain is an information processing machine and thus naturally lends itself to be studied
using computational tools based on the principles of information theory. For this reason …

Sequential transmission of task-relevant information in cortical neuronal networks

NA Francis, S Mukherjee, L Koçillari, S Panzeri… - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Cortical processing of task-relevant information enables recognition of behaviorally
meaningful sensory events. It is unclear how task-related information is represented within …

Gaussian partial information decomposition: Bias correction and application to high-dimensional data

P Venkatesh, C Bennett, S Gale… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recent advances in neuroscientific experimental techniques have enabled us to
simultaneously record the activity of thousands of neurons across multiple brain regions …

An information-theoretic quantification of the content of communication between brain regions

M Celotto, J Bím, A Tlaie, V De Feo… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Quantifying the amount, content and direction of communication between brain regions is
key to understanding brain function. Traditional methods to analyze brain activity based on …

Partial information decomposition for continuous variables based on shared exclusions: Analytical formulation and estimation

DA Ehrlich, K Schick-Poland, A Makkeh, F Lanfermann… - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
Describing statistical dependencies is foundational to empirical scientific research. For
uncovering intricate and possibly nonlinear dependencies between a single target variable …

Multimodal learning without labeled multimodal data: Guarantees and applications

PP Liang, CK Ling, Y Cheng, A Obolenskiy… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In many machine learning systems that jointly learn from multiple modalities, a core research
question is to understand the nature of multimodal interactions: the emergence of new task …

Estimating the unique information of continuous variables

A Pakman, A Nejatbakhsh, D Gilboa… - Advances in neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The integration and transfer of information from multiple sources to multiple targets is a core
motive of neural systems. The emerging field of partial information decomposition (PID) …

Biologically plausible solutions for spiking networks with efficient coding

V Koren, S Panzeri - Advances in neural information …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Understanding how the dynamics of neural networks is shaped by the computations they
perform is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Recently, the framework of efficient …

Transient disruption of the inferior parietal lobule impairs the ability to attribute intention to action

JF Patri, A Cavallo, K Pullar, M Soriano, M Valente… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Although it is well established that fronto-parietal regions are active during action
observation, whether they play a causal role in the ability to infer others' intentions from …

Behavioural relevance of redundant and synergistic stimulus information between functionally connected neurons in mouse auditory cortex

L Koçillari, M Celotto, NA Francis, S Mukherjee… - Brain Informatics, 2023 - Springer
Measures of functional connectivity have played a central role in advancing our
understanding of how information is transmitted and processed within the brain …