Hierarchical representations in the auditory cortex

TO Sharpee, CA Atencio, CE Schreiner - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2011 - Elsevier
Understanding the neural mechanisms of invariant object recognition remains one of the
major unsolved problems in neuroscience. A common solution that is thought to be …

Adaptive stimulus optimization for sensory systems neuroscience

C DiMattina, K Zhang - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2013 - frontiersin.org
In this paper, we review several lines of recent work aimed at developing practical methods
for adaptive on-line stimulus generation for sensory neurophysiology. We consider various …

Information theory in neuroscience

AG Dimitrov, AA Lazar, JD Victor - Journal of computational neuroscience, 2011 - Springer
Information Theory started and, according to some, ended with Shannon's seminal paper “A
Mathematical Theory of Communication”(Shannon 1948). Because its significance and …

Active data collection for efficient estimation and comparison of nonlinear neural models

C DiMattina, K Zhang - Neural computation, 2011 - direct.mit.edu
The stimulus-response relationship of many sensory neurons is nonlinear, but fully
quantifying this relationship by a complex nonlinear model may require too much data to be …

Data-driven approaches to understanding visual neuron activity

DA Butts - Annual review of vision science, 2019 - annualreviews.org
With modern neurophysiological methods able to record neural activity throughout the visual
pathway in the context of arbitrarily complex visual stimulation, our understanding of visual …

Active Learning for Discrete Latent Variable Models

A Jha, ZC Ashwood, JW Pillow - Neural computation, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Active learning seeks to reduce the amount of data required to fit the parameters of a model,
thus forming an important class of techniques in modern machine learning. However, past …

Online stimulus optimization rapidly reveals multidimensional selectivity in auditory cortical neurons

AR Chambers, KE Hancock, K Sen… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
Neurons in sensory brain regions shape our perception of the surrounding environment
through two parallel operations: decomposition and integration. For example, auditory …

Mapping and cracking sensorimotor circuits in genetic model organisms

DA Clark, L Freifeld, TR Clandinin - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
One central goal of systems neuroscience is to understand how neural circuits implement
the computations that link sensory inputs to behavior. Work combining electrophysiological …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive stimulus selection for multi-alternative psychometric functions with lapses

JH Bak, JW Pillow - Journal of vision, 2018 - tvst.arvojournals.org
Psychometric functions (PFs) quantify how external stimuli affect behavior, and they play an
important role in building models of sensory and cognitive processes. Adaptive stimulus …

Improving scalability in systems neuroscience

ZS Chen, B Pesaran - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Emerging technologies to acquire data at increasingly greater scales promise to transform
discovery in systems neuroscience. However, current exponential growth in the scale of data …