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ArticleeLife2021

Interpreting wide-band neural activity using convolutional neural networks.

Markus Frey, Sander Tanni, Catherine Perrodin, Alice O'Leary, Matthias Nau, Jack Kelly, Andrea Banino, Daniel Bendor, Julie Lefort, Christian F Doeller and 1 more

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Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Markus FreyKavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Centre for Neural Computation, The Egil and Pauline Braathen and Fred Kavli Centre for Cortical Microcircuits, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-0291-3391
Sander TanniCell & Developmental Biology, UCL, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-9275-0735
Catherine PerrodinInstitute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL, London, United Kingdom.
Alice O'LearyCell & Developmental Biology, UCL, London, United Kingdom.
Matthias NauKavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Centre for Neural Computation, The Egil and Pauline Braathen and Fred Kavli Centre for Cortical Microcircuits, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-0956-7815
Jack KellyOpen Climate Fix, London, United Kingdom.
Andrea BaninoDeepMind, London, United Kingdom.
Daniel BendorInstitute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL, London, United Kingdom.
Julie LefortCell & Developmental Biology, UCL, London, United Kingdom.
Christian F Doeller *Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Centre for Neural Computation, The Egil and Pauline Braathen and Fred Kavli Centre for Cortical Microcircuits, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-4120-4600
Caswell Barry *Cell & Developmental Biology, UCL, London, United Kingdom.
MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology · GBNorwegian University of Science and Technology · NOUniversity College London · GBGoogle DeepMind (United Kingdom) · GB

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 110238/Z/15/ZWellcome Trust 212281/Z/18/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapid progress in technologies such as calcium imaging and electrophysiology has seen a dramatic increase in the size and extent of neural recordings. Even so, interpretation of this data requires considerable knowledge about the nature of the representation and often depends on manual operations. Decoding provides a means to infer the information content of such recordings but typically requires highly processed data and prior knowledge of the encoding scheme. Here, we developed a deep-learning framework able to decode sensory and behavioral variables directly from wide-band neural data. The network requires little user input and generalizes across stimuli, behaviors, brain regions, and recording techniques. Once trained, it can be analyzed to determine elements of the neural code that are informative about a given variable. We validated this approach using electrophysiological and calcium-imaging data from rodent auditory cortex and hippocampus as well as human electrocorticography (ECoG) data. We show successful decoding of finger movement, auditory stimuli, and spatial behaviors - including a novel representation of head direction - from raw neural activity.

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Acoustic StimulationDeep LearningMovementNeural Networks, ComputerSpatial BehaviorAnimalsAuditory CortexElectrocorticographyFingersHippocampusHumansMaleMiceRatscalcium imagingdecodingdeep learningelectrophysiologyneurosciencerat

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PMID34338632
PMCPMC8328518
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