Convolutional neural networks as a model of the visual system: Past, present, and future

GW Lindsay - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) were inspired by early findings in the study of
biological vision. They have since become successful tools in computer vision and state-of …

Large-scale neural recordings call for new insights to link brain and behavior

AE Urai, B Doiron, AM Leifer, AK Churchland - Nature neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Neuroscientists today can measure activity from more neurons than ever before, and are
facing the challenge of connecting these brain-wide neural recordings to computation and …

A massive 7T fMRI dataset to bridge cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence

EJ Allen, G St-Yves, Y Wu, JL Breedlove… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Extensive sampling of neural activity during rich cognitive phenomena is critical for robust
understanding of brain function. Here we present the Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD), in …

Survey of spiking in the mouse visual system reveals functional hierarchy

JH Siegle, X Jia, S Durand, S Gale, C Bennett… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The anatomy of the mammalian visual system, from the retina to the neocortex, is organized
hierarchically. However, direct observation of cellular-level functional interactions across this …

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 …

High-dimensional geometry of population responses in visual cortex

C Stringer, M Pachitariu, N Steinmetz, M Carandini… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
A neuronal population encodes information most efficiently when its stimulus responses are
high-dimensional and uncorrelated, and most robustly when they are lower-dimensional …

Local connectivity and synaptic dynamics in mouse and human neocortex

L Campagnola, SC Seeman, T Chartrand, L Kim… - Science, 2022 - science.org
We present a unique, extensive, and open synaptic physiology analysis platform and
dataset. Through its application, we reveal principles that relate cell type to synaptic …

Two-photon calcium imaging of neuronal activity

C Grienberger, A Giovannucci, W Zeiger… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
In vivo two-photon calcium imaging (2PCI) is a technique used for recording neuronal
activity in the intact brain. It is based on the principle that, when neurons fire action …

Representational drift in the mouse visual cortex

D Deitch, A Rubin, Y Ziv - Current biology, 2021 - cell.com
Recent studies have shown that neuronal representations gradually change over time
despite no changes in the stimulus, environment, or behavior. However, such …

Functional connectomics spanning multiple areas of mouse visual cortex

MICrONS Consortium, JA Bae, M Baptiste, CA Bishop… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
To understand the brain we must relate neurons' functional responses to the circuit
architecture that shapes them. Here, we present a large functional connectomics dataset …