From the bioRxiv: A Selection of Recently Posted Papers from SCGB Investigators and Others

Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.

Phasic activation of dorsal raphe serotonergic neurons increases pupil-linked arousal

Fanny Cazettes, Davide Reato, João P. Morais, Alfonso Renart, Zachary F. Mainen

bioRxiv posted 27 June 2020

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Amplitude modulations of sensory responses, and deviations from Weber’s Law in pulsatile evidence accumulation

Sue Ann Koay, Stephan Y. Thiberge, Carlos D. Brody, David W. Tank

bioRxiv posted 25 June 2020

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Unsupervised deep learning identifies semantic disentanglement in single inferotemporal neurons

Irina Higgins, Le Chang, Victoria Langston, Demis Hassabis, Christopher Summerfield, Doris Tsao, Matthew Botvinick

arXiv posted 25 June 2020

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Predictive coding in balanced neural networks with noise, chaos and delays

Jonathan Kadmon, Jonathan Timcheck, Surya Ganguli

arXiv posted 25 June 2020

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Pruning neural networks without any data by iteratively conserving synaptic flow

Hidenori Tanaka, Daniel Kunin, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Surya Ganguli

arXiv posted 25 June 2020

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Learning Physical Graph Representations from Visual Scenes

Daniel M. Bear, Chaofei Fan, Damian Mrowca, Yunzhu Li, Seth Alter, Aran Nayebi, Jeremy Schwartz, Li Fei-Fei, Jiajun Wu, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Daniel L.K. Yamins

arXiv posted 22 June 2020

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Principles for coding associative memories in a compact neural network

Christian Pritz, Eyal Itskovits, Eduard Bokman, Rotem Ruach, Vladimir Gritsenko, Tal Nelken, Mai Menasherof, Aharon Azulay, and Alon Zaslaver

bioRxiv posted 21 June 2020

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Collective Learning by Ensembles of Altruistic Diversifying Neural Networks

Benjamin Brazowski, Elad Schneidman

arXiv posted 20 June 2020

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Learning efficient task-dependent representations with synaptic plasticity

Colin Bredenberg, Eero P. Simoncelli, Cristina Savin

bioRxiv posted 20 June 2020

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Unsupervised Neural Network Models of the Ventral Visual Stream

Chengxu Zhuang, Siming Yan, Aran Nayebi, Martin Schrimpf, Michael Frank, James DiCarlo, and Daniel Yamins

bioRxiv posted 18 June 2020

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The sensorimotor strategies and neuronal representations of tactile shape discrimination in mice

Chris C Rodgers, Ramon Nogueira, B Christina Pil, Esther A Greeman, Stefano Fusi, and Randy M Bruno

bioRxiv posted 16 June 2020

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Simulating a Primary Visual Cortex at the Front of CNNs Improves Robustness to Image Perturbations

Joel Dapello, Tiago Marques, Martin Schrimpf, Franziska Geiger, David D Cox, and James J DiCarlo

bioRxiv posted 17 June 2020

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A neural circuit mechanism of categorical perception: top-down signaling in the primate cortex

Bin Min, Daniel P Bliss, Arup Sarma, David J Freedman, and Xiao-Jing Wang

bioRxiv posted 15 June 2020

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Robust coding with spiking networks: a geometric perspective

Nuno Calaim, Florian Alexander Dehmelt, Pedro J. Goncalves, and Christian K. Machens

bioRxiv posted 15 June 2020

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Efficient population coding depends on stimulus convergence and source of noise

Kai Roeth, Shuai Shao, and Julijana Gjorgjieva

bioRxiv posted 15 June 2020

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Untangling stability and gain modulation in cortical circuits with multiple interneuron classes

Hannah Bos, Anne-Marie Oswald, and Brent Doiron

bioRxiv posted 15 June 2020

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High-contrast “gaudy” images improve the training of deep neural network models of visual cortex

Benjamin R. Cowley, Jonathan W. Pillow

arXiv posted 25 June 2020

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Manifold GPLVMs for discovering non-Euclidean latent structure in neural data

Kristopher T. Jensen, Ta-Chu Kao, Marco Tripodi, Guillaume Hennequin

arXiv posted 12 June 2020

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Reverse-engineering Recurrent Neural Network solutions to a hierarchical inference task for mice

Rylan Schaeffer, Mikail Khona, Leenoy Meshulam, International Brain Laboratory, and Ila Rani Fiete

bioRxiv posted 12 June 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.06.09.142745

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Neuroscience Cloud Analysis As a Service

Taiga Abe, Ian Kinsella, Shreya Saxena, Liam Paninski, and John P. Cunningham

bioRxiv posted 12 June 2020

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Learning the synaptic and intrinsic membrane dynamics underlying working memory in spiking neural network models

Yinghao Li, Robert Kim, and Terrence J Sejnowski

bioRxiv posted 12 June 2020

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Generation of Rapid Sequences by Motor Cortex

Andrew J Zimnik and Mark M Churchland

bioRxiv posted 10 June 2020

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Spatiotemporal structure of sensory-evoked and spontaneous activity revealed by mesoscale imaging in anesthetized and awake mice

Navvab Afrashteh, Samsoon Inayat, Edgar Bermudez Contreras, Artur Luczak, Bruce L McNaughton, and Majid H Mohajerani

bioRxiv posted 10 June 2020

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Multiple types of navigational information is diffusely and independently encoded in the population activities of the dentate gyrus neurons

Tomoyuki Murano, Ryuichi Nakajima, Akito Nakao, Nao Hirata, Satoko Amemori, Akira Murakami, Yukiyasu Kamitani, Jun Yamamoto, and Tsuyoshi Miyakawa

bioRxiv posted 9 June 2020

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Wiring Up Vision: Minimizing Supervised Synaptic Updates Needed to Produce a Primate Ventral Stream

Franziska Geiger, Martin Schrimpf, Tiago Marques and James DiCarlo

bioRxiv. posted 8 June 2020

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What computational model provides the best explanation of face representations in the primate brain?

Le Chang, Bernhard Egger, Thomas Vetter, and Doris Tsao

bioRxiv posted 8 June 2020

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Equations governing dynamics of excitation and inhibition in the mouse corticothalamic network

I-Chun Lin, Michael Okun, Matteo Carandini, and Kenneth D Harris

bioRxiv posted 4 June 2020

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A geometry of spike sequences: Fast, unsupervised discovery of high-dimensional neural spiking patterns based on optimal transport theory

Boris Sotomayor-Gomez, Francesco P Battaglia, and Martin Vinck

bioRxiv posted 4 June 2020

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Neuronal activity in sensory cortex predicts the specificity of learning.

Katherine C Wood, Christopher F Angeloni, Karmi Oxman, Claudia Clopath, and Maria Neimark Geffen

bioRxiv posted 3 June 2020

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Miniaturized head-mounted device for whole cortex mesoscale imaging in freely behaving mice

Mathew L Rynes, Daniel Surinach, Samantha Linn, Micheal Laroque, Vijay Rajendran, Judith Dominguez, Orestes Hadjistamolou, Zahra S Navabi, Leila Ghanbari, Gregory L Johnson, Mojtaba Nazari, Majid Mohajerani, and Suhasa B Kodandaramaiah

bioRxiv posted 28 May 2020

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