Category: Decoding

SFN 2014 poster – converging encoding strategies in dorsal and ventral visual streams

November 14, 2014

I have a poster session on Sunday afternoon at SFN 2014 in DC. It’s on a spiffy new method I’ve been working on for estimating the nonlinear transformation performed by an ensemble of sensory neurons, and its application to understanding visual representation in the dorsal and ventral visual streams. Some background: there’s a growing consensus … More SFN 2014 poster – converging encoding strategies in dorsal and ventral visual streams

Adam Kohn on population coding

June 27, 2012

Adam delivered a pretty intense lecture at CSHL on population coding, correlations and phase-locking. Consider myself mindfucked. Mainen & Sejnowski (1995) showed that single neurons have very reliable responses to current injections. Nevertheless, cortical neurons seem to have Poisson or supra-Poisson variability. It’s possible to find a bound on decodability using the Fisher information matrix (Sompolinsky … More Adam Kohn on population coding

Using a particle filter to decode place cells

February 7, 2012

In the last post, I discussed using an extended Kalman filter to decode place cells, based on the algorithm published in Brown et al. (1998). The results looked pretty good. EKFs are certainly better than population vector approaches that don’t consider the sequential nature of the decoding task. The fact that the path of the … More Using a particle filter to decode place cells

Using an iterated extended Kalman filter to decode place cells

February 6, 2012

Decoding neuronal activity is a powerful technique to study how information is encoded in a population and how it might be extracted by other brains areas. Hippocampal place cells are a prime example of a system that can be studied fruitfully from a decoding persepective. In a typical place cell decoding experiment, a population of … More Using an iterated extended Kalman filter to decode place cells