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ArticlePLoS computational biology2019

Bayesian inference of neuronal assemblies.

Giovanni Diana, Thomas T J Sainsbury, Martin P Meyer

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Giovanni DianaCenter for Developmental Neurobiology & MRC Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, King's College London, Guy's Hospital Campus, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-7497-5271
Thomas T J SainsburyCenter for Developmental Neurobiology & MRC Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, King's College London, Guy's Hospital Campus, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-5157-3034
Martin P MeyerCenter for Developmental Neurobiology & MRC Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, King's College London, Guy's Hospital Campus, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8337-630X
Guy's Hospital · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/N026063/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 204788/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In many areas of the brain, both spontaneous and stimulus-evoked activity can manifest as synchronous activation of neuronal assemblies. The characterization of assembly structure and dynamics provides important insights into how brain computations are distributed across neural networks. The proliferation of experimental techniques for recording the activity of neuronal assemblies calls for a comprehensive statistical method to describe, analyze and characterize these high dimensional datasets. The performance of existing methods for defining assemblies is sensitive to noise and stochasticity in neuronal firing patterns and assembly heterogeneity. To address these problems, we introduce a generative hierarchical model of synchronous activity to describe the organization of neurons into assemblies. Unlike existing methods, our analysis provides a simultaneous estimation of assembly composition, dynamics and within-assembly statistical features, such as the levels of activity, noise and assembly synchrony. We have used our method to characterize population activity throughout the tectum of larval zebrafish, allowing us to make statistical inference on the spatiotemporal organization of tectal assemblies, their composition and the logic of their interactions. We have also applied our method to functional imaging and neuropixels recordings from the mouse, allowing us to relate the activity of identified assemblies to specific behaviours such as running or changes in pupil diameter.

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Models, StatisticalAction PotentialsAnimalsBayes TheoremData Interpretation, StatisticalLarvaModels, NeurologicalNerve NetNeuronsZebrafish

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PMID31671090
PMCPMC6850560
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