What is code biology?

M Barbieri - Biosystems, 2018 - Elsevier
Various independent discoveries have shown that many organic codes exist in living
systems, and this implies that they came into being during the history of life and contributed …

Neural heterogeneity promotes robust learning

N Perez-Nieves, VCH Leung, PL Dragotti… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The brain is a hugely diverse, heterogeneous structure. Whether or not heterogeneity at the
neural level plays a functional role remains unclear, and has been relatively little explored in …

[HTML][HTML] Functionally distinct neuronal ensembles within the memory engram

X Sun, MJ Bernstein, M Meng, S Rao, AT Sørensen… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Memories are believed to be encoded by sparse ensembles of neurons in the brain.
However, it remains unclear whether there is functional heterogeneity within individual …

Flexible information routing by transient synchrony

A Palmigiano, T Geisel, F Wolf, D Battaglia - Nature neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Perception, cognition and behavior rely on flexible communication between microcircuits in
distinct cortical regions. The mechanisms underlying rapid information rerouting between …

Predictive information in a sensory population

SE Palmer, O Marre, MJ Berry, W Bialek - Proceedings of the National …, 2015 - pnas.org
Guiding behavior requires the brain to make predictions about the future values of sensory
inputs. Here, we show that efficient predictive computation starts at the earliest stages of the …

Intrinsic biophysical diversity decorrelates neuronal firing while increasing information content

K Padmanabhan, NN Urban - Nature neuroscience, 2010 - nature.com
Although examples of variation and diversity exist throughout the nervous system, their
importance remains a source of debate. Even neurons of the same molecular type have …

Information processing in living systems

G Tkačik, W Bialek - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Life depends as much on the flow of information as on the flow of energy. Here we review
the many efforts to make this intuition precise. Starting with the building blocks of information …

Code biology–A new science of life

M Barbieri - Biosemiotics, 2012 - Springer
Abstract Systems Biology and the Modern Synthesis are recent versions of two classical
biological paradigms that are known as structuralism and functionalism, or internalism and …

Dynamic effective connectivity of inter-areal brain circuits

D Battaglia, A Witt, F Wolf, T Geisel - PLoS computational biology, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Anatomic connections between brain areas affect information flow between neuronal circuits
and the synchronization of neuronal activity. However, such structural connectivity does not …