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Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes
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Recent psychophysical experiments indicate that humans perform near-optimal Bayesian inference in a wide variety of tasks, ranging from cue integration to decision making to motor control. This implies that neurons both represent probability distributions and combine those distributions according to a close approximation to Bayes' rule. At first sight, it would seem that the high variability in the responses of cortical neurons would make it difficult to implement such optimal statistical inference in cortical circuits. We argue that, in fact, this variability implies that populations of neurons automatically represent probability distributions over the stimulus, a type of code we call probabilistic population codes. Moreover, we demonstrate that the Poisson-like variability observed in cortex reduces a broad class of Bayesian inference to simple linear combinations of populations of neural activity. These results hold for arbitrary probability distributions over the stimulus, for tuning curves of arbitrary shape and for realistic neuronal variability.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ma, W. J., Beck, J. M., Latham, P. E., & Pouget, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Rochester (US)
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Pouget, Alexandre
- Venue
- Nature Neuroscience
- Published
- 2006-10-22
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1432-1438
- ISSN
- 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1726
- OpenAlex
- W2133877521
- Cited by
- 1,457
- References
- 49
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- FWCI
- 19.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
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- Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
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- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH062447, T32MH019942, R01 MH62447, T32 MH19942)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
- Keywords
- Bayesian inference, neural population codes, neural variability, shot noise, Bayes' theorem, cue integration, cortical circuits, neural coding
- MeSH terms
- Algorithms, Bayes Theorem, Cerebral Cortex, Humans, Models, Neurological, Nerve Net, Models, Statistical, Normal Distribution, Poisson Distribution
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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