optic nerve
Striate Cortex (V1) Hubel & Wiesel 1 deg
Striate Cortex (V1) Hubel & Wiesel 1 deg
Butts et al Spikes from an LGN Neuron: 62 Repeats of each stimulus S1S1 S2S2 S3S3 Firing Rate (Hz) time trial #
Sclar & Freeman 1982 response (spikes/s) orientation º+25º0º0º
Hallem & Carlson 2006 amines lactones acids sulfur terpenes aldehydes ketones aromatics alcohols esters Odorant Receptors
Striate Cortex (V1) 1 deg IT face cell Tsao et al. 2006
x x x x x x x x x x x x Hubel & Wiesel 1962 LGN Striate Cortex X = excitation = inhibition + + +
R1R1 Sclar & Freeman 1982 response (spikes/s) orientation 80% contrast 40% contrast º+25º0º0º
McAdams & Maunsell 1999 attend in attend out º-60º-30º0º0º30º60º90º V4 response orientation
Kohn & Movshon direction of motion spikes/s adapting direction
waterfall illusion
140 spikes/s Early: 65 to 85 ms (2 or 3 spikes) = 45° = 90° = 135° Late: >150 ms 140 spikes/s Pack & Born 2001
140 spikes/s Early: 65 to 85 ms = 45° = 90° = 135° Late: >150 ms 140 spikes/s Pack & Born 2001
Lorençeau et al. 1993
Shadlen & Newsome 1994 trial # sp/sec time (ms) Spikes from an MT Neuron: Identical Stimulus, 210 Repeats
Outline: neural coding lecture, pt 2 Population coding: a case study Problems in understanding decoding A cheat sheet for your homework assignment
Population coding: a case study the cricket wind direction sensing system (first-order neurons) Bacon & Murphey J. Physiol :
see the cricket wind direction sensing system (second-order neurons) Population coding: a case study First-order neuron projections to the terminal ganglion are organized according to preferred wind direction. There are four second-order neurons, and their dendrites are organized along the same divisions.
cell 1cell 2cell 3cell 4 wind direction (degrees) r / r max v Population coding: a case study P. Dayan & L.F. Abbott Theoretical Neuroscience MIT Press
Population coding: a case study P. Dayan & L.F. Abbott Theoretical Neuroscience MIT Press v
Outline: neural coding lecture, pt 2 Population coding: a case study Problems in understanding decoding A cheat sheet for your homework assignment
Problems in understanding decoding Which spike trains are being decoded to produce a percept? Stimuli that produce different percepts should produce discernable changes in the spiking of the candidate neurons. Differences in the spiking of candidate neurons should be sufficiently reliable to account for the acuity of the percept. Noise in the activity of the candidate neurons should predict noise in the percept. Artificially stimulating the candidate neurons should affect the percept. Silencing or removing the candidate neurons should affect the percept. Some criteria: adapted from Parker & Newsome, Annu. Rev. Neurosci :227–77.
Problems in understanding decoding Is information encoded in spike timing or spike rate? adapted from Gollisch & Meister Science : In principle, either spike timing or spike rate can carry information about a stimulus.
Problems in understanding decoding How much of a spike train should we consider? Cury & Uchida Neuron : Behavioral performance can help tell us what portion of a spike train we should consider.
Problems in understanding decoding Is the optimal decoding algorithm always used by the organism? Johansson & Vallbo, J. Physiol : rapidly adapting slowly adapting rapidly adapting type 2 rapidly adapting type 1 psychophysical The “lower envelope model”: Sensory thresholds are specified by the neuron that has the lowest threshold for stimulus in question.
Problems in understanding decoding Is the optimal decoding algorithm always used by the organism? Johansson & Vallbo, J. Physiol : … but single neurons can exhibit better acuity than the organism as a whole! rapidly adapting slowly adapting
Problems in understanding decoding Does each neuron provide independent information to the decoder? The “pooling model”: Sensory thresholds can be improved by pooling independent information from many neurons.
Problems in understanding decoding Does each neuron provide independent information to the decoder?
Problems in understanding decoding Does each neuron provide independent information to the decoder? There is lots of evidence that activity in nearby neurons is often not independent.
Outline: neural coding lecture, pt 2 Population coding: a case study Problems in understanding decoding A cheat sheet for your homework assignment
principal component 1 accounts for a large part of the variance (“body size”) Principal component analysis: a method for reducing the dimensionality of a data set by defining a reduced set of axes which account for much of the variance in the data. principal component 2 accounts for a smaller part of the variance
discriminant Linear discriminant analysis: a method for classifying samples within a data set based on drawing a linear boundary (a line or plane) which best separates different categories of samples.