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SUBMITTER: Orban G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5077700 | biostudies-other | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Orbán Gergő G Berkes Pietro P Fiser József J Lengyel Máté M
Neuron 20161001 2
Neural responses in the visual cortex are variable, and there is now an abundance of data characterizing how the magnitude and structure of this variability depends on the stimulus. Current theories of cortical computation fail to account for these data; they either ignore variability altogether or only model its unstructured Poisson-like aspects. We develop a theory in which the cortex performs probabilistic inference such that population activity patterns represent statistical samples from the ...[more]