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ReviewFrontiers in neural circuits2019

Probabilistic Encoding Models for Multivariate Neural Data.

Marcus A Triplett, Geoffrey J Goodhill

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Review in Frontiers in neural circuits, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Neuron synchronization analyzed through spatial-temporal attention.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2025
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  7. Context-Dependent Multiplexing by Individual VTA Dopamine Neurons.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Marcus A TriplettQueensland Brain Institute and School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Geoffrey J GoodhillQueensland Brain Institute and School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A key problem in systems neuroscience is to characterize how populations of neurons encode information in their patterns of activity. An understanding of the encoding process is essential both for gaining insight into the origins of perception and for the development of brain-computer interfaces. However, this characterization is complicated by the highly variable nature of neural responses, and thus usually requires probabilistic methods for analysis. Drawing on techniques from statistical modeling and machine learning, we review recent methods for extracting important variables that quantitatively describe how sensory information is encoded in neural activity. In particular, we discuss methods for estimating receptive fields, modeling neural population dynamics, and inferring low dimensional latent structure from a population of neurons, in the context of both electrophysiology and calcium imaging data.

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Models, NeurologicalNerve NetProbabilityAnimalsBrain-Computer InterfacesCalciumHumansNeural Networks, ComputerNeuronsCalciumbrain-computer interfacescalcium imagingfactor analysisGaussian processgeneralized linear modelneural codingpopulation code

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PMID30745864
PMCPMC6360288

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