Response sub-additivity and variability quenching in visual cortex

RLT Goris, R Coen-Cagli, KD Miller… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Sub-additivity and variability are ubiquitous response motifs in the primary visual cortex (V1).
Response sub-additivity enables the construction of useful interpretations of the visual …

Studying the neural representations of uncertainty

EY Walker, S Pohl, RN Denison, DL Barack, J Lee… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The study of the brain's representations of uncertainty is a central topic in neuroscience.
Unlike most quantities of which the neural representation is studied, uncertainty is a property …

Confidence reflects a noisy decision reliability estimate

ZM Boundy-Singer, CM Ziemba, RLT Goris - Nature Human Behaviour, 2023 - nature.com
Decisions vary in difficulty. Humans know this and typically report more confidence in easy
than in difficult decisions. However, confidence reports do not perfectly track decision …

Active neural map**

Z Yan, H Yang, H Zha - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We address the problem of active map** with a continually-learned neural scene
representation, namely Active Neural Map**. The key lies in actively finding the target …

Neurobind: Towards unified multimodal representations for neural signals

F Yang, C Feng, D Wang, T Wang, Z Zeng, Z Xu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Understanding neural activity and information representation is crucial for advancing
knowledge of brain function and cognition. Neural activity, measured through techniques …

Chaotic neural dynamics facilitate probabilistic computations through sampling

Y Terada, T Toyoizumi - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2024 - pnas.org
Cortical neurons exhibit highly variable responses over trials and time. Theoretical works
posit that this variability arises potentially from chaotic network dynamics of recurrently …

Cognitive, systems, and computational neurosciences of the self in motion

JP Noel, DE Angelaki - Annual review of psychology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Navigating by path integration requires continuously estimating one's self-motion. This
estimate may be derived from visual velocity and/or vestibular acceleration signals …

Chaotic recurrent neural networks for brain modelling: A review

A Mattera, V Alfieri, G Granato, G Baldassarre - Neural Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
Even in the absence of external stimuli, the brain is spontaneously active. Indeed, most
cortical activity is internally generated by recurrence. Both theoretical and experimental …

Fractional neural sampling as a theory of spatiotemporal probabilistic computations in neural circuits

Y Qi, P Gong - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
A range of perceptual and cognitive processes have been characterized from the
perspective of probabilistic representations and inference. To understand the neural circuit …

Taking the neural sampling code very seriously: A data-driven approach for evaluating generative models of the visual system

S Shrinivasan, KK Lurz, K Restivo… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Prevailing theories of perception hypothesize that the brain implements perception via
Bayesian inference in a generative model of the world. One prominent theory, the Neural …