Analysis methods for large-scale neuronal recordings

C Stringer, M Pachitariu - Science, 2024 - science.org
Simultaneous recordings from hundreds or thousands of neurons are becoming routine
because of innovations in instrumentation, molecular tools, and data processing software …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating across behaviors and timescales to understand the neural control of movement

JM Gmaz, JA Keller, JT Dudman, JA Gallego - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
The nervous system evolved to enable navigation throughout the environment in the pursuit
of resources. Evolutionarily newer structures allowed increasingly complex adaptations but …

A unified, scalable framework for neural population decoding

M Azabou, V Arora, V Ganesh, X Mao… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Our ability to use deep learning approaches to decipher neural activity would likely benefit
from greater scale, in terms of both the model size and the datasets. However, the …

Population-level coding of avoidance learning in medial prefrontal cortex

B Ehret, R Boehringer, EA Amadei, MR Cervera… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been proposed to link sensory inputs and
behavioral outputs to mediate the execution of learned behaviors. However, how such a link …

Neural data transformer 2: multi-context pretraining for neural spiking activity

J Ye, J Collinger, L Wehbe… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The neural population spiking activity recorded by intracortical brain-computer interfaces
(iBCIs) contain rich structure. Current models of such spiking activity are largely prepared for …

Modeling and dissociation of intrinsic and input-driven neural population dynamics underlying behavior

P Vahidi, OG Sani… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Neural dynamics can reflect intrinsic dynamics or dynamic inputs, such as sensory inputs or
inputs from other brain regions. To avoid misinterpreting temporally structured inputs as …

MotorNet, a Python toolbox for controlling differentiable biomechanical effectors with artificial neural networks

O Codol, JA Michaels, M Kashefi, JA Pruszynski… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are a powerful class of computational models for
unravelling neural mechanisms of brain function. However, for neural control of movement …

Soft Matching Distance: A metric on neural representations that captures single-neuron tuning

M Khosla, AH Williams - … of UniReps: the First Workshop on …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
Common measures of neural representational (dis) similarity are designed to be insensitive
to rotations and reflections of the neural activation space. Motivated by the premise that the …

[HTML][HTML] From innate to instructed: A new look at perceptual decision-making

LT Oesch, MB Ryan, AK Churchland - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding how subjects perceive sensory stimuli in their environment and use this
information to guide appropriate actions is a major challenge in neuroscience. To study …

Decoding the brain: From neural representations to mechanistic models

MW Mathis, AP Rotondo, EF Chang, AS Tolias… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
A central principle in neuroscience is that neurons within the brain act in concert to produce
perception, cognition, and adaptive behavior. Neurons are organized into specialized brain …