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 …

The complexity of many biological, social and technological systems stems from the richness
of the interactions among their units. Over the past decades, a variety of complex systems …

Neurons in the brain represent information in their collective activity. The fidelity of this
neural population code depends on whether and how variability in the response of one …

Sensory neurons give highly variable responses to stimulation, which can limit the amount of
stimulus information available to downstream circuits. Much work has investigated the …

Neural population codes are the correspondences between external stimuli and patterns of
neuronal firing in the nervous system. Over the past decade, advances in recording …

Non-random connectivity can emerge without structured external input driven by activity-
dependent mechanisms of synaptic plasticity based on precise spiking patterns. Here we …

A basic—yet nontrivial—function which neocortical circuitry must satisfy is the ability to
maintain stable spiking activity over time. Stable neocortical activity is asynchronous, critical …

One influential view in neuroscience is that pairwise cell interactions explain the firing
patterns of large populations. Despite its prevalence, this view originates from studies in the …

The ability to synthesize realistic patterns of neural activity is crucial for studying neural
information processing. Here we used the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) …

To study sensory representations, neuroscientists record neural activities while presenting
different stimuli to the animal. From these data, we identify neurons whose activities depend …