Real brains have messy, heterogeneous neural tuning - and that’s a feature, not a bug. We show how heterogeneity boosts encoded information 🚀. Swing by poster [1-019] at tonight’s #cosyne26 to see how.
🧠 #compneurosky #neuroskyence
Jan Drugowitsch
I’ll be presenting this work (plus some exciting new follow-up analyses!) tonight at poster [1-019], “A unifying theory of receptive field heterogeneity predicts hippocampal spatial tuning.” Come by and say hi! #cosyne26
Zach Cohen
Finally up on bioRxiv! A new study with @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social where we do a deep dive into the coding benefits of receptive field heterogeneity and come up with new ways to measure receptive fields! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... [1/n]
Zach Cohen
www.biorxiv.org
Neural populations exhibit receptive fields that vary in their sizes and shapes. Despite the prevalence of such tuning heterogeneity, we lack a unified theory of its computational benefits. Here, we p...
