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_id: '9709'
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.
article_processing_charge: No
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: Gašper
  full_name: Tkačik, Gašper
  id: 3D494DCA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Tkačik
  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. Data from: Error-robust
    modes of the retinal population code. 2017. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1f1rc">10.5061/dryad.1f1rc</a>'
  apa: 'Prentice, J., Marre, O., Ioffe, M., Loback, A., Tkačik, G., &#38; Berry, M.
    (2017). Data from: Error-robust modes of the retinal population code. Dryad. <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1f1rc">https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1f1rc</a>'
  chicago: 'Prentice, Jason, Olivier Marre, Mark Ioffe, Adrianna Loback, Gašper Tkačik,
    and Michael Berry. “Data from: Error-Robust Modes of the Retinal Population Code.”
    Dryad, 2017. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1f1rc">https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1f1rc</a>.'
  ieee: 'J. Prentice, O. Marre, M. Ioffe, A. Loback, G. Tkačik, and M. Berry, “Data
    from: Error-robust modes of the retinal population code.” Dryad, 2017.'
  ista: 'Prentice J, Marre O, Ioffe M, Loback A, Tkačik G, Berry M. 2017. Data from:
    Error-robust modes of the retinal population code, Dryad, <a href="https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1f1rc">10.5061/dryad.1f1rc</a>.'
  mla: 'Prentice, Jason, et al. <i>Data from: Error-Robust Modes of the Retinal Population
    Code</i>. Dryad, 2017, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1f1rc">10.5061/dryad.1f1rc</a>.'
  short: J. Prentice, O. Marre, M. Ioffe, A. Loback, G. Tkačik, M. Berry, (2017).
date_created: 2021-07-23T11:34:34Z
date_published: 2017-10-18T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-22T09:43:12Z
day: '18'
department:
- _id: GaTk
doi: 10.5061/dryad.1f1rc
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1f1rc
month: '10'
oa: 1
oa_version: Published Version
publisher: Dryad
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    status: public
status: public
title: 'Data from: Error-robust modes of the retinal population code'
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