Current opinion in neurobiology
Sep 17, 2021
The ongoing exponential rise in recording capacity calls for new approaches for analysing and interpreting neural data. Effective dimensionality has emerged as an important property of neural activity across populations of neurons, yet different stud...
Current opinion in neurobiology
Jun 24, 2021
The mechanisms of information storage and retrieval in brain circuits are still the subject of debate. It is widely believed that information is stored at least in part through changes in synaptic connectivity in networks that encode this information...
Current opinion in neurobiology
Jun 8, 2021
The utility of machine learning in understanding the motor system is promising a revolution in how to collect, measure, and analyze data. The field of movement science already elegantly incorporates theory and engineering principles to guide experime...
Current opinion in neurobiology
Jun 1, 2021
This article highlights specific features of biological neurons and their dendritic trees, whose adoption may help advance artificial neural networks used in various machine learning applications. Advancements could take the form of increased computa...
Current opinion in neurobiology
Dec 3, 2020
Biological visual systems exhibit abundant recurrent connectivity. State-of-the-art neural network models for visual recognition, by contrast, rely heavily or exclusively on feedforward computation. Any finite-time recurrent neural network (RNN) can ...
Current opinion in neurobiology
Nov 29, 2019
Recent advances in computer vision have made accurate, fast and robust measurement of animal behavior a reality. In the past years powerful tools specifically designed to aid the measurement of behavior have come to fruition. Here we discuss how capt...
Current opinion in neurobiology
Oct 25, 2019
With the increasing acquisition of large-scale neural recordings comes the challenge of inferring the computations they perform and understanding how these give rise to behavior. Here, we review emerging conceptual and technological advances that beg...
Current opinion in neurobiology
Sep 25, 2019
A central tenet of neuroscience is that the brain works through large populations of interacting neurons. With recent advances in recording techniques, the inner working of these populations has come into full view. Analyzing the resulting large-scal...
Current opinion in neurobiology
Mar 15, 2019
Sensory neuroscience aims to build models that predict neural responses and perceptual behaviors, and that provide insight into the principles that give rise to them. For decades, artificial neural networks trained to perform perceptual tasks have at...
Current opinion in neurobiology
Mar 13, 2019
Across neuroscience, large-scale data recording and population-level analysis methods have experienced explosive growth. While the underlying hardware and computational techniques have been well reviewed, we focus here on the novel science that these...