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
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Zach Cohen
Kempner Institute at Harvard University
I am totally pumped about this new work . "Task-trained RNNs" are a powerful and influential framework in neuroscience, but have lacked a firm theoretical footing. This work provides one, and makes direct contact with the classical theory of random RNNs:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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]
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...
