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ArticleJournal of neuroscience methods2016

A Bayesian nonparametric approach for uncovering rat hippocampal population codes during spatial navigation.

Scott W Linderman, Matthew J Johnson, Matthew A Wilson, Zhe Chen

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4 authors.

Scott W LindermanPaulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: slinderman@seas.harvard.edu.
Matthew J JohnsonPaulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: mattjj@csail.mit.edu.
Matthew A WilsonPicower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Electronic address: mwilson@mit.edu.
Zhe ChenDepartment of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA. Electronic address: Zhe.Chen3@nyumc.org.

Funding

Redesigning General Anesthesia (Admin Supp)R01GM104948 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BOYDEN, EDWARD S., BROWN, EMERY N · 2012 to 2016
$4.4M
Hippocampal Prefrontal Cortical Interactions in MemoryR01MH061976 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI WILSON, MATTHEW A · 2002 to 2011
$3.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM104948NIGMS NIH HHS TR01-GM10498NIMH NIH HHS R01-MH06197NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH061976
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundRodent hippocampal population codes represent important spatial information about the environment during navigation. Computational methods have been developed to uncover the neural representation of spatial topology embedded in rodent hippocampal ensemble spike activity. NEW

methodWe extend our previous work and propose a novel Bayesian nonparametric approach to infer rat hippocampal population codes during spatial navigation. To tackle the model selection problem, we leverage a Bayesian nonparametric model. Specifically, we apply a hierarchical Dirichlet process-hidden Markov model (HDP-HMM) using two Bayesian inference methods, one based on Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and the other based on variational Bayes (VB).

resultsThe effectiveness of our Bayesian approaches is demonstrated on recordings from a freely behaving rat navigating in an open field environment. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING

methodsThe HDP-HMM outperforms the finite-state HMM in both simulated and experimental data. For HPD-HMM, the MCMC-based inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) hyperparameter sampling is flexible and efficient, and outperforms VB and MCMC approaches with hyperparameters set by empirical Bayes.

conclusionThe Bayesian nonparametric HDP-HMM method can efficiently perform model selection and identify model parameters, which can used for modeling latent-state neuronal population dynamics.

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Bayes TheoremAction PotentialsAlgorithmsAnimalsHippocampusModels, NeurologicalNeuronsNonlinear DynamicsRatsSpatial NavigationBayesian nonparametric inferenceGibbs samplerHamiltonian Monte CarloHidden Markov modelHierarchical Dirichlet processMarkov chain Monte CarloPopulation codesStick-breaking processVariational Bayes

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