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SUBMITTER: Cayco-Gajic NA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5653655 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cayco-Gajic N Alex NA Clopath Claudia C Silver R Angus RA
Nature communications 20171024 1
Pattern separation is a fundamental function of the brain. The divergent feedforward networks thought to underlie this computation are widespread, yet exhibit remarkably similar sparse synaptic connectivity. Marr-Albus theory postulates that such networks separate overlapping activity patterns by mapping them onto larger numbers of sparsely active neurons. But spatial correlations in synaptic input and those introduced by network connectivity are likely to compromise performance. To investigate ...[more]