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ArticleFrontiers in neural circuits2019

A Comparison of Neural Decoding Methods and Population Coding Across Thalamo-Cortical Head Direction Cells.

Zishen Xu, Wei Wu, Shawn S Winter, Max L Mehlman, William N Butler, Christine M Simmons, Ryan E Harvey, Laura E Berkowitz, Yang Chen, Jeffrey S Taube and 2 more

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Article 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 12 papers.

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12 authors.

Zishen XuDepartment of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States.
Wei WuDepartment of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States.
Shawn S WinterDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States.
Max L MehlmanDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States.
William N ButlerDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States.
Christine M SimmonsDepartment of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States.
Ryan E HarveyDepartment of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States.
Laura E BerkowitzDepartment of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States.
Yang ChenDepartment of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States.
Jeffrey S TaubeDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States.
Aaron A WilberDepartment of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States.
Benjamin J ClarkDepartment of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States.

Funding

Alcohol Research Training in NeurosciencesT32AA014127 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR · PI Jonathan L Brigman · 2003 to 2026
$3.3M
Neural Basis of Spatial CognitionR01NS053907 · NINDS · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI TAUBE, JEFFREY STEVEN · 2005 to 2015
$3.2M
Parietal-hippocampal network in the triple transgenic mouse model of AlzheimersR00AG049090 · NIA · FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI WILBER, AARON A · 2017 to 2019
$747k
Neural Basis for Spatial CognitionR56NS053907 · NINDS · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI TAUBE, JEFFREY STEVEN · 2017 to 2017
$405k
Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Neural Representations of SpaceR21AA024983 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO · PI CLARK, BENJAMIN J, HAMILTON, DEREK A. · 2017 to 2018
$398k
Parietal-hippocampal network in the triple transgenic mouse model of AlzheimersK99AG049090 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI WILBER, AARON A · 2015 to 2016
$189k
Phase sequences of posterior parietal cortex ensembles and sequence learningF32MH099682 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI WILBER, AARON A · 2013 to 2013
$51k
NIAAA NIH HHS R21 AA024983NIAAA NIH HHS T32 AA014127NIA NIH HHS K99 AG049090NIA NIH HHS R00 AG049090NIMH NIH HHS F32 MH099682NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS053907NINDS NIH HHS R56 NS053907
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Head direction (HD) cells, which fire action potentials whenever an animal points its head in a particular direction, are thought to subserve the animal's sense of spatial orientation. HD cells are found prominently in several thalamo-cortical regions including anterior thalamic nuclei, postsubiculum, medial entorhinal cortex, parasubiculum, and the parietal cortex. While a number of methods in neural decoding have been developed to assess the dynamics of spatial signals within thalamo-cortical regions, studies conducting a quantitative comparison of machine learning and statistical model-based decoding methods on HD cell activity are currently lacking. Here, we compare statistical model-based and machine learning approaches by assessing decoding accuracy and evaluate variables that contribute to population coding across thalamo-cortical HD cells.

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Action PotentialsAnimalsCerebral CortexComputer SimulationHead MovementsModels, NeurologicalNeuronsOrientation, SpatialRatsSpatial NavigationThalamusanterior thalamusmemorynavigationparahippocampalparietalspatial behavior

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PMID31920565
PMCPMC6914739

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