Although we are continuously bombarded with visual input, only a fraction of incoming visual
events is perceived, remembered or acted on. The neural underpinnings of various forms of …

Life depends as much on the flow of information as on the flow of energy. Here we review
the many efforts to make this intuition precise. Starting with the building blocks of information …

Rich, dynamic, and dense sensory stimuli are encoded within the nervous system by the
time-varying activity of many individual neurons. A fundamental approach to understanding …

Responses of sensory neurons are often modeled using a weighted combination of rectified
linear subunits. Since these subunits often cannot be measured directly, a flexible method is …

Natural stimuli elicit robust responses of neurons throughout sensory pathways, and
therefore their use provides unique opportunities for understanding sensory coding. This …

We describe a set of fast, tractable methods for characterizing neural responses to high-
dimensional sensory stimuli using a model we refer to as the generalized quadratic model …

In natural visually guided behavior, observers must separate relevant information from a
barrage of irrelevant information. Many studies have investigated the neural underpinnings …

How many types of neurons are there in the brain? This basic neuroscience question
remains unsettled despite many decades of research. Classification schemes have been …

Stimulus dimensionality-reduction methods in neuroscience seek to identify a low-
dimensional space of stimulus features that affect a neuron's probability of spiking. One …

Generalized linear models (GLMs) represent a popular choice for the probabilistic
characterization of neural spike responses. While GLMs are attractive for their computational …