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 …

The science and engineering behind sensitized brain-controlled bionic hands

C Pandarinath, SJ Bensmaia - Physiological Reviews, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Advances in our understanding of brain function, along with the development of neural
interfaces that allow for the monitoring and activation of neurons, have paved the way for …

Learnable latent embeddings for joint behavioural and neural analysis

S Schneider, JH Lee, MW Mathis - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Map** behavioural actions to neural activity is a fundamental goal of neuroscience. As our
ability to record large neural and behavioural data increases, there is growing interest in …

A unified, scalable framework for neural population decoding

M Azabou, V Arora, V Ganesh, X Mao… - Advances in …, 2023 - 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 …

Rastermap: a discovery method for neural population recordings

C Stringer, L Zhong, A Syeda, F Du, M Kesa… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Neurophysiology has long progressed through exploratory experiments and chance
discoveries. Anecdotes abound of researchers listening to spikes in real time and noticing …

Dimensionality reduction beyond neural subspaces with slice tensor component analysis

A Pellegrino, H Stein, NA Cayco-Gajic - Nature Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Recent work has argued that large-scale neural recordings are often well described by
patterns of coactivation across neurons. Yet the view that neural variability is constrained to …

A large-scale neural network training framework for generalized estimation of single-trial population dynamics

MR Keshtkaran, AR Sedler, RH Chowdhury… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Achieving state-of-the-art performance with deep neural population dynamics models
requires extensive hyperparameter tuning for each dataset. AutoLFADS is a model-tuning …

Dynamical flexible inference of nonlinear latent factors and structures in neural population activity

H Abbaspourazad, E Erturk, B Pesaran… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
Modelling the spatiotemporal dynamics in the activity of neural populations while also
enabling their flexible inference is hindered by the complexity and noisiness of neural …

A multi-demand operating system underlying diverse cognitive tasks

W Cai, J Taghia, V Menon - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
The existence of a multiple-demand cortical system with an adaptive, domain-general, role
in cognition has been proposed, but the underlying dynamic mechanisms and their links to …

Retrospective for the Dynamic Sensorium Competition for predicting large-scale mouse primary visual cortex activity from videos

P Turishcheva, P Fahey, M Vystrčilová… - Advances in …, 2025 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Understanding how biological visual systems process information is challenging because of
the nonlinear relationship between visual input and neuronal responses. Artificial neural …