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Neural correlations, population coding and computation
Abstract
How the brain encodes information in population activity, and how it combines and manipulates that activity as it carries out computations, are questions that lie at the heart of systems neuroscience. During the past decade, with the advent of multi-electrode recording and improved theoretical models, these questions have begun to yield answers. However, a complete understanding of neuronal variability, and, in particular, how it affects population codes, is missing. This is because variability in the brain is typically correlated, and although the exact effects of these correlations are not known, it is known that they can be large. Here, we review studies that address the interaction between neuronal noise and population codes, and discuss their implications for population coding in general.
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- Authors
- Averbeck, B. B., Latham, P. E., & Pouget, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Rochester (US)
- Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Pouget, Alexandre
- Venue
- Nature reviews. Neuroscience
- Published
- 2006-05
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 358-366
- ISSN
- 1471-003X (ISSN-L)
- 1471-0048
- OpenAlex
- W1998050452
- Cited by
- 1,743
- References
- 78
- Citations by year
- 2026: 78 · 2025: 103 · 2024: 123 · 2023: 96 · 2022: 77 · 2021: 106 · 2020: 97 · 2019: 127 · 2018: 109 · 2017: 96 · 2016: 105 · 2015: 102 · 2014: 89 · 2013: 96 · 2012: 77
- FWCI
- 3.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature reviews. Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- neural correlations, neural noise, population coding, population activity, neural computation, neural variability, multi-electrode recording, information encoding
- MeSH terms
- Action Potentials, Animals, Brain, Humans, Models, Neurological, Nerve Net, Neurons, Neural Networks, Computer
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