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Elife ; 92020 07 14.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32660692

ABSTRACT

Over days and weeks, neural activity representing an animal's position and movement in sensorimotor cortex has been found to continually reconfigure or 'drift' during repeated trials of learned tasks, with no obvious change in behavior. This challenges classical theories, which assume stable engrams underlie stable behavior. However, it is not known whether this drift occurs systematically, allowing downstream circuits to extract consistent information. Analyzing long-term calcium imaging recordings from posterior parietal cortex in mice (Mus musculus), we show that drift is systematically constrained far above chance, facilitating a linear weighted readout of behavioral variables. However, a significant component of drift continually degrades a fixed readout, implying that drift is not confined to a null coding space. We calculate the amount of plasticity required to compensate drift independently of any learning rule, and find that this is within physiologically achievable bounds. We demonstrate that a simple, biologically plausible local learning rule can achieve these bounds, accurately decoding behavior over many days.


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Learning/physiology , Mice/physiology , Neurons/physiology , Parietal Lobe/physiology , Animals , Memory/physiology , Mice, Inbred C57BL
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PLoS Comput Biol ; 12(11): e1005148, 2016 Nov.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27855154

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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.


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Action Potentials/physiology , Models, Neurological , Models, Statistical , Nerve Net/physiology , Retinal Ganglion Cells/physiology , Vision, Ocular/physiology , Cells, Cultured , Computer Simulation , Humans , Synaptic Transmission/physiology
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