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 …

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 …

Why the simplest explanation isn't always the best

EL Dyer, K Kording - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
As datasets in neuroscience increase in size and complexity, interpreting these high-
dimensional data is becoming more critical. However, develo** an intuition for patterns or …

Extraction and recovery of spatio-temporal structure in latent dynamics alignment with diffusion models

Y Wang, Z Wu, C Li, A Wu - Advances in Neural Information …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In the field of behavior-related brain computation, it is necessary to align raw neural signals
against the drastic domain shift among them. A foundational framework within neuroscience …

The speech neuroprosthesis

AB Silva, KT Littlejohn, JR Liu, DA Moses… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Loss of speech after paralysis is devastating, but circumventing motor-pathway injury by
directly decoding speech from intact cortical activity has the potential to restore natural …

Transcriptomic cell type structures in vivo neuronal activity across multiple timescales

A Schneider, M Azabou, L McDougall-Vigier, DF Parks… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Cell type is hypothesized to be a key determinant of a neuron's role within a circuit. Here, we
examine whether a neuron's transcriptomic type influences the timing of its activity. We …

Seeing the forest and the tree: Building representations of both individual and collective dynamics with transformers

R Liu, M Azabou, M Dabagia… - Advances in neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Complex time-varying systems are often studied by abstracting away from the dynamics of
individual components to build a model of the population-level dynamics from the start …

A high-performance brain–computer interface for finger decoding and quadcopter game control in an individual with paralysis

MS Willsey, NP Shah, DT Avansino, NV Hahn… - Nature Medicine, 2025 - nature.com
People with paralysis express unmet needs for peer support, leisure activities and sporting
activities. Many within the general population rely on social media and massively multiplayer …

Neural latent aligner: cross-trial alignment for learning representations of complex, naturalistic neural data

CJ Cho, E Chang… - … Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Understanding the neural implementation of complex human behaviors is one of the major
goals in neuroscience. To this end, it is crucial to find a true representation of the neural …

[HTML][HTML] Self-supervised multimodal learning for group inferences from MRI data: Discovering disorder-relevant brain regions and multimodal links

A Fedorov, E Geenjaar, L Wu, T Sylvain, TP DeRamus… - NeuroImage, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, deep learning approaches have gained significant attention in predicting
brain disorders using neuroimaging data. However, conventional methods often rely on …