Decoding the brain: From neural representations to mechanistic models

MW Mathis, AP Rotondo, EF Chang, AS Tolias… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
A central principle in neuroscience is that neurons within the brain act in concert to produce
perception, cognition, and adaptive behavior. Neurons are organized into specialized brain …

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 …

Energy guided diffusion for generating neurally exciting images

P Pierzchlewicz, K Willeke, A Nix… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In recent years, most exciting inputs (MEIs) synthesized from encoding models of neuronal
activity have become an established method for studying tuning properties of biological and …

Retrospective for the Dynamic Sensorium Competition for predicting large-scale mouse primary visual cortex activity from videos

P Turishcheva, P Fahey, M Vystrčilová… - Advances in …, 2025 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Understanding how biological visual systems process information is challenging because of
the nonlinear relationship between visual input and neuronal responses. Artificial neural …

Functional connectomics reveals general wiring rule in mouse visual cortex

Z Ding, PG Fahey, S Papadopoulos, EY Wang… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Understanding the relationship between circuit connectivity and function is crucial for
uncovering how the brain implements computation. In the mouse primary visual cortex (V1) …

Pattern completion and disruption characterize contextual modulation in the visual cortex

J Fu, S Shrinivasan, L Baroni, Z Ding, PG Fahey… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Vision is fundamentally context-dependent, with neuronal responses influenced not just by
local features but also by surrounding contextual information. In the visual cortex, studies …

[HTML][HTML] Bipartite invariance in mouse primary visual cortex

Z Ding, DT Tran, K Ponder, E Cobos, Z Ding… - …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A defining characteristic of intelligent systems, whether natural or artificial, is the ability to
generalize and infer behaviorally relevant latent causes from high-dimensional sensory …

The dynamic sensorium competition for predicting large-scale mouse visual cortex activity from videos

P Turishcheva, PG Fahey, M Vystrčilová, L Hansel… - Ar** computational models of neural response is crucial for understanding sensory
processing and neural computations. Current state-of-the-art neural network methods use …

Decoding dynamic visual scenes across the brain hierarchy

Y Chen, P Beech, Z Yin, S Jia, J Zhang… - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Understanding the computational mechanisms that underlie the encoding and decoding of
environmental stimuli is a crucial investigation in neuroscience. Central to this pursuit is the …