--- _id: '1197' abstract: - lang: eng text: Across the nervous system, certain population spiking patterns are observed far more frequently than others. A hypothesis about this structure is that these collective activity patterns function as population codewords–collective modes–carrying information distinct from that of any single cell. We investigate this phenomenon in recordings of ∼150 retinal ganglion cells, the retina’s output. We develop a novel statistical model that decomposes the population response into modes; it predicts the distribution of spiking activity in the ganglion cell population with high accuracy. We found that the modes represent localized features of the visual stimulus that are distinct from the features represented by single neurons. Modes form clusters of activity states that are readily discriminated from one another. When we repeated the same visual stimulus, we found that the same mode was robustly elicited. These results suggest that retinal ganglion cells’ collective signaling is endowed with a form of error-correcting code–a principle that may hold in brain areas beyond retina. acknowledgement: JSP was supported by a C.V. Starr Fellowship from the Starr Foundation (http://www.starrfoundation.org/). GT was supported by Austrian Research Foundation (https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/) grant FWF P25651. MJB received support from National Eye Institute (https://nei.nih.gov/) grant EY 14196 and from the National Science Foundation grant 1504977. The authors thank Cristina Savin and Vicent Botella-Soler for helpful comments on the manuscript. article_number: e1005855 author: - first_name: Jason full_name: Prentice, Jason last_name: Prentice - first_name: Olivier full_name: Marre, Olivier last_name: Marre - first_name: Mark full_name: Ioffe, Mark last_name: Ioffe - first_name: Adrianna full_name: Loback, Adrianna last_name: Loback - first_name: Gasper full_name: Tkacik, Gasper id: 3D494DCA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkacik orcid: 0000-0002-6699-1455 - first_name: Michael full_name: Berry, Michael last_name: Berry citation: ama: Prentice J, Marre O, Ioffe M, Loback A, Tkačik G, Berry M. Error-robust modes of the retinal population code. PLoS Computational Biology. 2016;12(11). doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005148 apa: Prentice, J., Marre, O., Ioffe, M., Loback, A., Tkačik, G., & Berry, M. (2016). Error-robust modes of the retinal population code. PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005148 chicago: Prentice, Jason, Olivier Marre, Mark Ioffe, Adrianna Loback, Gašper Tkačik, and Michael Berry. “Error-Robust Modes of the Retinal Population Code.” PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005148. ieee: J. Prentice, O. Marre, M. Ioffe, A. Loback, G. Tkačik, and M. Berry, “Error-robust modes of the retinal population code,” PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 12, no. 11. Public Library of Science, 2016. ista: Prentice J, Marre O, Ioffe M, Loback A, Tkačik G, Berry M. 2016. Error-robust modes of the retinal population code. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(11), e1005855. mla: Prentice, Jason, et al. “Error-Robust Modes of the Retinal Population Code.” PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 12, no. 11, e1005855, Public Library of Science, 2016, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005148. short: J. Prentice, O. Marre, M. Ioffe, A. Loback, G. Tkačik, M. Berry, PLoS Computational Biology 12 (2016). date_created: 2018-12-11T11:50:40Z date_published: 2016-11-17T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T14:05:40Z day: '17' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: GaTk doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005148 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 47b08cbd4dbf32b25ba161f5f4b262cc content_type: application/pdf creator: kschuh date_created: 2019-01-25T10:35:00Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:44:38Z file_id: '5884' file_name: 2016_PLOS_Prentice.pdf file_size: 4492021 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:44:38Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 12' issue: '11' language: - iso: eng month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 254D1A94-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 25651-N26 name: Sensitivity to higher-order statistics in natural scenes publication: PLoS Computational Biology publication_status: published publisher: Public Library of Science publist_id: '6153' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '9709' relation: research_data status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Error-robust modes of the retinal population code tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 12 year: '2016' ...