A central goal of neuroscience is to understand the representations formed by brain activity
patterns and their connection to behaviour. The classic approach is to investigate how …

Mounting evidence suggests that understanding how the brain encodes information and
performs computations will require studying the correlations between neurons. The recent …

To produce consistent sensory perception, neurons must maintain stable representations of
sensory input. However, neurons in many regions exhibit progressive drift across days …

Computational strategies used by the brain strongly depend on the amount of information
that can be stored in population activity, which in turn strongly depends on the pattern of …

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 …

Cortical neurons receive balanced excitatory and inhibitory synaptic currents. Such a
balance could be established and maintained in an experience-dependent manner by …

Visual attention can improve behavioral performance by allowing observers to focus on the
important information in a complex scene. Attention also typically increases the firing rates of …

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 …

“Neural coding” is a popular metaphor in neuroscience, where objective properties of the
world are communicated to the brain in the form of spikes. Here I argue that this metaphor is …