ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2019
Causes and consequences of representational drift.
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- Realignment of representational drift in mouse visual cortex via flexible electrode arrays.Nature biomedical engineering · 2026Article
- Stars2Cells: Astrometric Tracking of Neurons Across Imaging Sessions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Changes in perceptual sampling contribute to representational drift.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- The Wire Is Not the Territory: Understanding Representational Drift in Olfaction With Dynamical Systems Theory.Topics in cognitive science · 2026Article
- Remembering the "when": Hebbian memory models for the time of past events.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Experience and behavior modulate piriform cortex odor representation in freely moving mice.iScience · 2026Article
- Coordinated Representational Drift Across the Mouse Cortex.Research square · 2026Article
- Statistics of cortical representational drift can enable robust readout.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
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- Coordinated Representational Drift Across the Mouse Cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- State-dependent geometric transformations in the mouse hippocampus support fear generalization without loss of discriminability.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Contamination of Engram Coactivity Networks During Forgetting.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex.Cognitive neuroscience · 2026Review
- Variance-calibrated cross-individual bootstrapping for small-sample neuroscience.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Neural Representations of Reward-Related Memories Shift across Development.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Stiefel Manifold Dynamical Systems for Tracking Representational Drift.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Order parameters and phase transitions of continual learning in deep neural networks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Voltage imaging as a window into neural computation.Neurophotonics · 2026Article
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Abstract
The nervous system learns new associations while maintaining memories over long periods, exhibiting a balance between flexibility and stability. Recent experiments reveal that neuronal representations of learned sensorimotor tasks continually change over days and weeks, even after animals have achieved expert behavioral performance. How is learned information stored to allow consistent behavior despite ongoing changes in neuronal activity? What functions could ongoing reconfiguration serve? We highlight recent experimental evidence for such representational drift in sensorimotor systems, and discuss how this fits into a framework of distributed population codes. We identify recent theoretical work that suggests computational roles for drift and argue that the recurrent and distributed nature of sensorimotor representations permits drift while limiting disruptive effects. We propose that representational drift may create error signals between interconnected brain regions that can be used to keep neural codes consistent in the presence of continual change. These concepts suggest experimental and theoretical approaches to studying both learning and maintenance of distributed and adaptive population codes.
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