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ReviewFrontiers in systems neuroscience2016

Models of Neuronal Stimulus-Response Functions: Elaboration, Estimation, and Evaluation.

Arne F Meyer, Ross S Williamson, Jennifer F Linden, Maneesh Sahani

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Review in Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Arne F MeyerGatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London London, UK.
Ross S WilliamsonEaton-Peabody Laboratories, Massachusetts Eye and Ear InfirmaryBoston, MA, USA; Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical SchoolBoston, MA, USA.
Jennifer F LindenEar Institute, University College LondonLondon, UK; Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College LondonLondon, UK.
Maneesh SahaniGatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London London, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rich, dynamic, and dense sensory stimuli are encoded within the nervous system by the time-varying activity of many individual neurons. A fundamental approach to understanding the nature of the encoded representation is to characterize the function that relates the moment-by-moment firing of a neuron to the recent history of a complex sensory input. This review provides a unifying and critical survey of the techniques that have been brought to bear on this effort thus far-ranging from the classical linear receptive field model to modern approaches incorporating normalization and other nonlinearities. We address separately the structure of the models; the criteria and algorithms used to identify the model parameters; and the role of regularizing terms or "priors." In each case we consider benefits or drawbacks of various proposals, providing examples for when these methods work and when they may fail. Emphasis is placed on key concepts rather than mathematical details, so as to make the discussion accessible to readers from outside the field. Finally, we review ways in which the agreement between an assumed model and the neuron's response may be quantified. Re-implemented and unified code for many of the methods are made freely available.

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neural codingreceptive fieldsensory system

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PMID28127278
PMCPMC5226961

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