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  Flexible Models for Population Spike Trains

Bethge, M., Macke, J., Berens, P., Ecker, A., & Tolias, A. (2008). Flexible Models for Population Spike Trains. Poster presented at AREADNE 2008: Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles, Santorini, Greece.

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Bethge, M1, Autor           
Macke, JH1, 2, Autor           
Berens, P1, Autor           
Ecker, AS1, Autor           
Tolias, AS3, Autor           
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1Research Group Computational Vision and Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497805              
2Department Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497795              
3Department Physiology of Cognitive Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497798              

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 Zusammenfassung: In order to understand how neural systems perform computations and process sensory information, we need to understand the structure of firing patterns in large populations of neurons. Spike trains recorded from populations of neurons can exhibit substantial pair wise correlations between neurons and rich temporal structure. Thus, efficient methods for generating artificial spike trains with specified correlation structure are essential for the realistic simulation and analysis of neural systems. Here we show how correlated binary spike trains can be modeled by means of a latent multivariate Gaussian model. Sampling from our model is computationally very efficient, and in particular, feasible even for large populations of neurons. We show empirically that the spike trains generated with this method have entropy close to the theoretical maximum. They are therefore consistent with specified pair-wise correlations without exhibiting systematic higher-order correlations. We compare our model to alternative approaches and discuss its limitations and advantages. In addition, we demonstrate its use for modeling temporal correlations in a neuron recorded in macaque primary visual cortex. Neural activity is often summarized by discarding the exact timing of spikes, and only counting the total number of spikes that a neuron (or population) fires in a given time window. In modeling studies, these spike counts have often been assumed to be Poisson distributed and neurons to be independent. However, correlations between spike counts have been reported in various visual areas. We show how both temporal and inter-neuron correlations shape the structure of spike counts, and how our model can be used to generate spike counts with arbitrary marginal distributions and correlation structure. We demonstrate its capabilities by modeling a population of simultaneously recorded neurons from the primary visual cortex of a macaque, and we show how a model with correlations accounts for the data far better than a model that assumes independence.

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 Datum: 2008-06
 Publikationsstatus: Erschienen
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Titel: AREADNE 2008: Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles
Veranstaltungsort: Santorini, Greece
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