Inferring neural population dynamics from multiple partial recordings of the same neural circuit.

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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) . 2013;26

Inferring neural population dynamics from multiple partial recordings of the same neural circuit. Turaga Lab

Turaga SC, Buesing L, Packer AM, Dalgleish H, Pettit N, Häusser M, Macke JH

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Simultaneous recordings of the activity of large neural populations are extremely valuable as they can be used to infer the dynamics and interactions of neurons in a local circuit, shedding light on the computations performed. It is now possible to measure the activity of hundreds of neurons using 2-photon calcium imaging. However, many computations are thought to involve circuits consisting of thousands of neurons, such as cortical barrels in rodent somatosensory cortex. Here we contribute a statistical method for stitching" together sequentially imaged sets of neurons into one model by phrasing the problem as fitting a latent dynamical system with missing observations. This method allows us to substantially expand the population-sizes for which population dynamics can be characterized---beyond the number of simultaneously imaged neurons. In particular, we demonstrate using recordings in mouse somatosensory cortex that this method makes it possible to predict noise correlations between non-simultaneously recorded neuron pairs.

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Inferring neural population dynamics from multiple partial recordings of the same neural circuit.

Note: Research in this publication was not performed at Janelia.

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