what is the neural code?. alan litke, ucsd reading out the neural code
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What is the neural code?
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Alan Litke, UCSD
Reading out the neural code
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Reading out the neural code
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Reading out the neural code
Kwan, HFSP 2010
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What is the neural code?
M. Berry
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What is the neural code?
Single neurons
Populations
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Encoding: how does a stimulus cause a pattern of responses?
• what are the responses and what are their characteristics?• neural models:
-- from stimulus to response-- descriptive mechanistic models
Decoding: what do these responses tell us about the stimulus?
• Implies some kind of decoding algorithm• How to evaluate how good our algorithm is?
Encoding and decoding
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Basic coding model: linear filtering
Spatial filter: r = f(x,y) I(x0-x,y0-y) dx dy
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Basic coding model: temporal filtering
Linear filter: r(t) = f(t-t) s(t) dt
…shortcomings?
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Nonlinearity: tuning curves
Gaussian tuning curve of a cortical (V1) neuron
Nonlinear function: r = g(s)
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Nonlinearity: tuning curves
Cosine tuning curve of a motor cortical neuron
Nonlinear function: r = g(s)
Hand reaching direction
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Nonlinearity: tuning curves
Sigmoidal tuning curve of a V1 cortical neuron
Nonlinear function: r = g(s)
Hand reaching direction
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Nonlinearity: tuning curves
Quian Quiroga, Reddy, Kreiman, Koch and Fried, Nature (2005)
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What is s?
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Nonlinearity: tuning curves
Quian Quiroga, Reddy, Kreiman, Koch and Fried, Nature (2005)
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What is s?
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Coding models
P(response | stimulus)
P(stimulus | response)
encoding
decoding
• What is response?• What is stimulus?• What is the function P?
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Basic coding model: temporal filtering
Linear filter: r(t) = f(t-t) s(t) dt
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Next most basic coding model
Linear filter & nonlinearity: r(t) = g( f(t-t) s(t) d )t
s*f1
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How to find the components of this model
s*f1
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Reverse correlation: the spike-triggered average
Spike-conditionalensemble
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The spike-triggered average
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More generally, one can conceive of the action of the neuron or neural system as selecting a low dimensional subset of its inputs.
Start with a very high dimensional description (eg. an image or a time-varying waveform)
and pick out a small set of relevant dimensions.
s(t)
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s4 s5 s.. s.. s.. sn S(t) = (S1,S2,S3,…,Sn)
Dimensionality reduction
P(response | stimulus) P(response | s1, s2, .., sn)
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Linear filtering
Linear filtering = convolution = projection
s1
s2
s3
Stimulus feature is a vector in a high-dimensional stimulus space
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Spike-triggeredaverage
Gaussian priorstimulus distribution
Spike-conditional distribution
Determining linear features from white noise
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How to find the components of this model
s*f1
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The input/output function is:
which can be derived from data using Bayes’ rule:
Determining the nonlinear input/output function
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Tuning curve: P(spike|s) = P(s|spike) P(spike) / P(s)
Nonlinear input/output function
Tuning curve: P(spike|s) = P(s|spike) P(spike) / P(s)
s
P(s|spike) P(s)
s
P(s|spike) P(s)
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Next most basic coding model
Linear filter & nonlinearity: r(t) = g( f(t-t) s(t) d )t
s*f1
…shortcomings?
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Less basic coding models
Linear filters & nonlinearity: r(t) = g(f1*s, f2*s, …, fn*s)
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Spike-triggeredaverage
Gaussian priorstimulus distribution
Spike-conditional distribution
covariance
Determining linear features from white noise
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The covariance matrix is
Properties:
• The number of eigenvalues significantly different from zero is the number of relevant stimulus features
• The corresponding eigenvectors are the relevant features (or span the relevant subspace)
Stimulus prior
Bialek et al., 1988; Brenner et al., 2000; Bialek and de Ruyter, 2005
Identifying multiple features
Spike-triggered stimulus correlation
Spike-triggeredaverage
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Let’s develop some intuition for how this works: a filter-and-fire threshold-crossing model with AHP
Keat, Reinagel, Reid and Meister, Predicting every spike. Neuron (2001)
• Spiking is controlled by a single filter, f(t)• Spikes happen generally on an upward threshold crossing of
the filtered stimulus expect 2 relevant features, the filter f(t) and its time derivative f’(t)
A toy example: a filter-and-fire model
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Covariance analysis of a filter-and-fire model
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Example: rat somatosensory (barrel) cortex Ras Petersen and Mathew Diamond, SISSA
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Let’s try it
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Spike-triggered average:
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Is the neuron simply not very responsive to a white noise stimulus?
White noise analysis in barrel cortex
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Prior Spike-triggered
Difference
Covariance matrices from barrel cortical neurons
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Eigenspectrum from barrel cortical neurons
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and in quadrature:
Input/output relations from barrel cortical neurons
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How about the other modes?
Next pair with +ve eigenvaluesPair with -ve eigenvalues
Less significant eigenmodes from barrel cortical neurons
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Salamander retinal ganglion cells perform a variety of computations
Michael Berry
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Complex cell like
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Projection onto Mode 1
Bimodal: two separate features are encoded as either/or
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When have you done a good job?
• When the tuning curve over your variable is interesting.
• How to quantify interesting?
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Tuning curve: P(spike|s) = P(s|spike) P(spike) / P(s)
Goodness measure: DKL(P(s|spike) | P(s))
When have you done a good job?
Tuning curve: P(spike|s) = P(s|spike) P(spike) / P(s)
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Boring: spikes unrelated to stimulus
P(s|spike) P(s)
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Interesting: spikes are selective
P(s|spike) P(s)
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Maximally informative dimensions
Choose filter in order to maximize DKL between spike-conditional and prior distributions
Equivalent to maximizing mutual information between stimulus and spike
Sharpee, Rust and Bialek, Neural Computation, 2004
Does not depend on white noise inputs
Likely to be most appropriatefor deriving models fromnatural stimuli
s = I*f
P(s|spike) P(s)
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1. Single, best filter determined by the first moment
2. A family of filters derived using the second moment
3. Use the entire distribution: information theoretic methods
Removes requirement for Gaussian stimuli
Finding relevant features
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Less basic coding models
Linear filters & nonlinearity: r(t) = g(f1*s, f2*s, …, fn*s)
…shortcomings?
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Less basic coding models
GLM: r(t) = g(f1*s + f2*r)
Pillow et al., Nature 2008; Truccolo, .., Brown, J. Neurophysiol. 2005
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Less basic coding models
GLM: r(t) = g(f*s + h*r)
…shortcomings?
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Less basic coding models
GLM: r(t) = g(f1*s + h1*r1 + h2*r2 +…)
…shortcomings?