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ArticleJournal of vision2019

Using deep learning to probe the neural code for images in primary visual cortex.

William F Kindel, Elijah D Christensen, Joel Zylberberg

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Article in Journal of vision, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

William F KindelDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
Elijah D ChristensenDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
Joel ZylberbergDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.

Funding

Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM008497 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI WILSON, CARA C. · 1993 to 2022
$15.2M
Computational Bioscience Program Training GrantT15LM009451 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI Katherina Kechris-Mays, Arjun Krishnan · 2007 to 2026
$11.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008497NLM NIH HHS T15 LM009451
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Primary visual cortex (V1) is the first stage of cortical image processing, and major effort in systems neuroscience is devoted to understanding how it encodes information about visual stimuli. Within V1, many neurons respond selectively to edges of a given preferred orientation: These are known as either simple or complex cells. Other neurons respond to localized center-surround image features. Still others respond selectively to certain image stimuli, but the specific features that excite them are unknown. Moreover, even for the simple and complex cells-the best-understood V1 neurons-it is challenging to predict how they will respond to natural image stimuli. Thus, there are important gaps in our understanding of how V1 encodes images. To fill this gap, we trained deep convolutional neural networks to predict the firing rates of V1 neurons in response to natural image stimuli, and we find that the predicted firing rates are highly correlated (

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Deep LearningAnimalsMacacaNeural Networks, ComputerNeuronsOrientationOrientation, SpatialVisual CortexVisual Perception

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PMID31026016
PMCPMC6485988

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