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  Scaling of information in large sensory neuronal populations

Cotton, J., Ecker, A., Froudarakis, E., Berens, P., Bethge, M., Saggau, P., et al. (2015). Scaling of information in large sensory neuronal populations. Poster presented at 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2015), Chicago, IL, USA.

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Cotton, JR, Author
Ecker, AS1, 2, Author           
Froudarakis, E, Author
Berens, P1, Author           
Bethge, M1, Author           
Saggau, P, Author
Tolias, AS2, Author           
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1Research Group Computational Vision and Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497805              
2Department Physiology of Cognitive Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497798              

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 Abstract: Individual neurons are noisy. Therefore, it seems necessary to pool the activity of many neurons to obtain an accurate representation of the environment. However, it is widely believed that shared noise in the activity of nearby neurons renders such pooling ineffective, limiting the accuracy of the population code and, ultimately, behavior. However, these predictions are based on extrapolating models fit to small numbers of neurons and have not been tested experimentally. Using a novel high-speed 3D-microscope we densely recorded from hundreds of neurons in the mouse visual cortex and measured the amount of information encoded. We find that the information in this sensory population increases approximately linearly with population size and does not saturate, even for several hundred neurons. This information growth is facilitated by a correlation structure that is not aligned with the tuning, making it less harmful than would be predicted from pairwise measurements. Accordingly, a decoder that accounts for the correlation structure outperforms one that does not. Our findings suggest that sensory representations may be more accurate than previously thought and therefore that psychophysical limitations may arise from downstream neural processes rather than limitations in the sensory encoding.

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 Dates: 2015-10-19
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Title: 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2015)
Place of Event: Chicago, IL, USA
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Title: 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2015)
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