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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
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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
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