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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2016

Dimensionality reduction in neuroscience.

Rich Pang, Benjamin J Lansdell, Adrienne L Fairhall

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Rich PangNeuroscience Graduate Program, University of Washington, Box 357270, T-471 Health Sciences Ctr, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Benjamin J LansdellDepartment of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Lewis Hall #202, Box 353925, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Adrienne L FairhallDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, 1705 NE Pacific Street, Box 357290, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; WRF UW Institute for Neuroengineering, University of Washington, Box Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, University of Washington, Box 37, 1414 NE 42nd St., Suite 204, Seattle, WA 98105, USA. Electronic address: fairhall@uw.edu.

Funding

Undergraduate and graduate training in neural computation and engineeringT90DA032436 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI FAIRHALL, ADRIENNE L, SHEA-BROWN, ERIC TODD · 2011 to 2020
$1.5M
CRCNS: Decision-making in flying insects using multisensory cuesR01DC013693 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI DICKINSON, MICHAEL H, FAIRHALL, ADRIENNE L · 2013 to 2016
$1.1M
NIDA NIH HHS T90 DA032436NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC013693
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nervous system extracts information from its environment and distributes and processes that information to inform and drive behaviour. In this task, the nervous system faces a type of data analysis problem, for, while a visual scene may be overflowing with information, reaching for the television remote before us requires extraction of only a relatively small fraction of that information. We could care about an almost infinite number of visual stimulus patterns, but we don't: we distinguish two actors' faces with ease but two different images of television static with significant difficulty. Equally, we could respond with an almost infinite number of movements, but we don't: the motions executed to pick up the remote are highly stereotyped and related to many other grasping motions. If we were to look at what was going on inside the brain during this task, we would find populations of neurons whose electrical activity was highly structured and correlated with the images on the screen and the action of localizing and picking up the remote.

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PerceptionAnimalsHumansNeurons

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PMID27458907
PMCPMC6132250

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