Attractor and integrator networks in the brain

M Khona, IR Fiete - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
In this Review, we describe the singular success of attractor neural network models in
describing how the brain maintains persistent activity states for working memory, corrects …

Computation through neural population dynamics

S Vyas, MD Golub, D Sussillo… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Significant experimental, computational, and theoretical work has identified rich structure
within the coordinated activity of interconnected neural populations. An emerging challenge …

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 …

Representational drift: Emerging theories for continual learning and experimental future directions

LN Driscoll, L Duncker, CD Harvey - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent work has revealed that the neural activity patterns correlated with sensation,
cognition, and action often are not stable and instead undergo large scale changes over …

Neural population geometry: An approach for understanding biological and artificial neural networks

SY Chung, LF Abbott - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Advances in experimental neuroscience have transformed our ability to explore the structure
and function of neural circuits. At the same time, advances in machine learning have …

Geometry of sequence working memory in macaque prefrontal cortex

Y **e, P Hu, J Li, J Chen, W Song, XJ Wang, T Yang… - Science, 2022 - science.org
How the brain stores a sequence in memory remains largely unknown. We investigated the
neural code underlying sequence working memory using two-photon calcium imaging to …

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 …

Preserved neural dynamics across animals performing similar behaviour

M Safaie, JC Chang, J Park, LE Miller, JT Dudman… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Animals of the same species exhibit similar behaviours that are advantageously adapted to
their body and environment. These behaviours are shaped at the species level by selection …

Long-term stability of cortical population dynamics underlying consistent behavior

JA Gallego, MG Perich, RH Chowdhury, SA Solla… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Animals readily execute learned behaviors in a consistent manner over long periods of time,
and yet no equally stable neural correlate has been demonstrated. How does the cortex …

The population doctrine in cognitive neuroscience

RB Ebitz, BY Hayden - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
A major shift is happening within neurophysiology: a population doctrine is drawing level
with the single-neuron doctrine that has long dominated the field. Population-level ideas …