The representation of an animal's position in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) is distributed across several modules of grid cells, each characterized by a distinct spatial scale. The population activity within ...
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The representation of an animal's position in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) is distributed across several modules of grid cells, each characterized by a distinct spatial scale. The population activity within each module is tightly coordinated and preserved across environments and behavioral states. Little is known, however, about the coordination of activity patterns across modules. We analyzed the joint activity patterns of hundreds of grid cells simultaneously recorded in animals that were foraging either in the light, when sensory cues could stabilize the representation, or in darkness, when such stabilization was disrupted. We found that the states of different modules are tightly coordinated, even in darkness, when the internal representation of position within the MEC deviates substantially from the true position of the animal. These findings suggest that internal brain mechanisms dynamically coordinate the representation of position in different modules, ensuring that they jointly encode a coherent and smooth trajectory.
Decades after the motor homunculus was first proposed, it is still unknown how different body parts are intermixed and interrelated in human motor cortical areas at single-neuron resolution. Using multi-unit recording...
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Decades after the motor homunculus was first proposed, it is still unknown how different body parts are intermixed and interrelated in human motor cortical areas at single-neuron resolution. Using multi-unit recordings, we studied how face, head, arm, and leg movements are represented in the hand knob area of premotor cortex (precentral gyrus) in people with tetraplegia. Contrary to traditional expectations, we found strong representation of all movements and a partially "compositional'' neural code that linked together all four limbs. The code consisted of (1) a limb-coding component representing the limb to be moved and (2) a movement-coding component where analogous movements from each limb (e.g., hand grasp and toe curl) were represented similarly. Compositional coding might facilitate skill transfer across limbs, and it provides a useful framework for thinking about how the motor system constructs movement. Finally, we leveraged these results to create a whole-body intracortical brain-computer interface that spreads targets across all limbs.
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Sheeran, William M.Ahmed, Omar J.Univ Michigan
Dept Psychol 580 Union Dr Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA Univ Michigan
Dept Biomed Engn Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA Univ Michigan
Neurosci Grad Program Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA Univ Michigan
Kresge Hearing Res Inst 1301 E Ann St Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA Univ Michigan
Michigan Ctr Integrat Res Crit Care Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA Univ Michigan
Dept Mol Cellular & Dev Biol Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA Univ Colorado
Sch Med Med Scientist Training Program Aurora CO 80045 USA
Ants who have successfully navigated the long distance between their foraging spot and their nest dozens of times will drastically overshoot their destination if the size of their legs is doubled by the addition of st...
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Ants who have successfully navigated the long distance between their foraging spot and their nest dozens of times will drastically overshoot their destination if the size of their legs is doubled by the addition of stilts. This observation reflects a navigational strategy called path integration, a strategy also utilized by mammals. Path integration necessitates that animals keep track of their movement speed and use it to precisely and instantly modify where they think they are and where they want to go. Here we review the neural circuitry that has evolved to integrate speed and space. We start with the rate and temporal codes for speed in the hippocampus and work backwards towards the motor and sensory systems. We highlight the need for experiments designed to differentiate the respective contributions of motor efference copy versus sensory inputs. In particular, we discuss the importance of high-resolution tracking of the latency of speed-encoding as a precise way to disentangle the sensory versus motor computations that enable successful spatial navigation at very different speeds.
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as energy-efficient neural networks with temporal information. SNNs have shown a superior efficiency on neuromorphic devices, but the devices are susceptible to noise, which...
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(纸本)9781665432740
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as energy-efficient neural networks with temporal information. SNNs have shown a superior efficiency on neuromorphic devices, but the devices are susceptible to noise, which hinders them from being applied in real-world applications. Several studies have increased noise robustness, but most of them considered neither deep SNNs nor temporal information. In this paper, we investigate the effect of noise on deep SNNs with various neural coding methods and present a noise-robust deep SNN with temporal information. With the proposed methods, we have achieved a deep SNN that is efficient and robust to spike deletion and jitter.
Memory traces and associations between them are fundamental for cognitive brain function. Neuron recordings suggest that distributed assemblies of neurons in the brain serve as memory traces for spatial information, r...
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Memory traces and associations between them are fundamental for cognitive brain function. Neuron recordings suggest that distributed assemblies of neurons in the brain serve as memory traces for spatial information, real-world items, and concepts. However, there is conflicting evidence regarding neural codes for associated memory traces. Some studies suggest the emergence of overlaps between assemblies during an association, while others suggest that the assemblies themselves remain largely unchanged and new assemblies emerge as neural codes for associated memory items. Here we study the emergence of neural codes for associated memory items in a generic computational model of recurrent networks of spiking neurons with a data-constrained rule for spike-timing-dependent plasticity. The model depends critically on 2 parameters, which control the excitability of neurons and the scale of initial synaptic weights. By modifying these 2 parameters, the model can reproduce both experimental data from the human brain on the fast formation of associations through emergent overlaps between assemblies, and rodent data where new neurons are recruited to encode the associated memories. Hence, our findings suggest that the brain can use both of these 2 neural codes for associations, and dynamically switch between them during consolidation.
Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) regulate diverse aspects of mammalian physiology, including the synchronization of circadian rhythms with local time. These neurons sense light with a recep...
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Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) regulate diverse aspects of mammalian physiology, including the synchronization of circadian rhythms with local time. These neurons sense light with a receptor called melanopsin and provide practically all retinal innervation of the suprachiasmatic nucleus, the master clock. Their activity is especially important over long timescales. How do ipRGCs respond to light, what signals do they send downstream, and to what extent are these signals tailored to circadian photoregulation? This chapter provides practical guidance for studying ipRGC signals in the ex vivo mouse retina using patch-clamp electrophysiology and optical stimulation. Somatic and axonal recording are covered, as are methods that include loose, cell attached, whole cell, and perforated patch. Also discussed are how particular features of the ipRGC light response affect the design and interpretation of experiments. These approaches may be useful in the broader effort to understand how a neuron’s functional properties align with its role in the organism. less
In contrast to the previous artificial neural networks (ANNs), spiking neural networks (SNNs) work based on temporal coding approaches. In the proposed SNN, the number of neurons, neuron models, encoding method, and l...
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In contrast to the previous artificial neural networks (ANNs), spiking neural networks (SNNs) work based on temporal coding approaches. In the proposed SNN, the number of neurons, neuron models, encoding method, and learning algorithm design are described in a correct and pellucid fashion. It is also discussed that optimizing the SNN parameters based on physiology, and maximizing the information they pass leads to a more robust network. In this paper, inspired by the "center-surround" structure of the receptive fields in the retina, and the amount of overlap that they have, a robust SNN is implemented. It is based on the Integrate-and-Fire (IF) neuron model and uses the time-to-first-spike coding to train the network by a newly proposed method. The Iris and MNIST datasets were employed to evaluate the performance of the proposed network whose accuracy, with 60 input neurons, was 96.33% on the Iris dataset. The network was trained in only 45 iterations indicating its reasonable convergence rate. For the MNIST dataset, when the gray level of each pixel was considered as input to the network, 600 input neurons were required, and the accuracy of the network was 90.5%. Next, 14 structural features were used as input. Therefore, the number of input neurons decreased to 210, and accuracy increased up to 95%, meaning that an SNN with fewer input neurons and good skill was implemented. Also, the ABIDE1 dataset is applied to the proposed SNN. Of the 184 data, 79 are used for healthy people and 105 for people with autism. One of the characteristics that can differentiate between these two classes is the entropy of the existing data. Therefore, Shannon entropy is used for feature extraction. Applying these values to the proposed SNN, an accuracy of 84.42% was achieved by only 120 iterations, which is a good result compared to the recent results.
neural interaction is realized by information exchange. It seemed that the information amount does not keep constant and may be reduced during the travel between neural nodes. In addition, recent research of neural co...
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neural interaction is realized by information exchange. It seemed that the information amount does not keep constant and may be reduced during the travel between neural nodes. In addition, recent research of neural coding has suggested that neural information could be represented by parsimonious spiking pattern, named sparse coding. Based on the above observation, neuro-messenger theory (NMT) is proposed to explicate the communicative process between the source and the target neural nodes. Neuro-messenger is a sparse code which does not have to carry every detail of the dynamics in source node. Other formats of neural coding (e.g., temporal and rate coding) could be the precursors of neuro-messengers, and the repeated spatiotemporal patterns buried in the ongoing brain activities may be the circulated neuro-messengers from diverse origins. Referred to chaos/complexity theory, information can be recovered at target node where neuro-messenger serves as a facilitator to locate the trajectory at proper attractor, and hence the associated psychological entity. In contrast to conventional concepts of encoding and decoding, the processes of encoding in source node, issuing neuro-messengers, and recovering information at target node are summarized as “three-facet coding scheme”. The design of neuro-messenger enables the brain to utilize energy in an efficient and economical way. NMT may have substantial implication in several major psychiatric disorders. Some psychiatric conditions could be mediated by abnormal neuro-messengers that coerce the regional neuro-dynamics to delve into maladaptive attractors and hence the characteristic symptoms.
One fundamental question is what makes two brain states similar. For example, what makes the activity in visual cortex elicited from viewing a robin similar to a sparrow? One common assumption in fMRI analysis is that...
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The apparent stochastic nature of neuronal activity significantly affects the reliability of neuronal coding. To quantify the encountered fluctuations, both in neural data and simulations, the notions of variability a...
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The apparent stochastic nature of neuronal activity significantly affects the reliability of neuronal coding. To quantify the encountered fluctuations, both in neural data and simulations, the notions of variability and randomness of inter-spike intervals have been proposed and studied. In this article we focus on the concept of the instantaneous firing rate, which is also based on the spike timing. We use several classical statistical models of neuronal activity and we study the corresponding probability distributions of the instantaneous firing rate. To characterize the firing rate variability and randomness under different spiking regimes, we use different indices of statistical dispersion. We find that the relationship between the variability of interspike intervals and the instantaneous firing rate is not straightforward in general. Counter-intuitively, an increase in the randomness (based on entropy) of spike times may either decrease or increase the randomness of instantaneous firing rate, in dependence on the neuronal firing model. Finally, we apply our methods to experimental data, establishing that instantaneous rate analysis can indeed provide additional information about the spiking activity.
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