Ruben Coen-Cagli

Nov 7, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Oren Weiss |Ruben Coen-Cagli |Albert Einstein College

AbstractSensory processing arises from the communication between neural populations across multiple brain areas. While the widespread presence of neural response variability shared throughout a neural population limits the amount of stimulus-related information those populations can accurately represent, how this variability affects the interareal communication of sensory information is unknown.

Feb 19, 2024 | nature.com | Ruben Coen-Cagli |Kenneth Miller |Nicholas J. Priebe

AbstractSub-additivity and variability are ubiquitous response motifs in the primary visual cortex (V1). Response sub-additivity enables the construction of useful interpretations of the visual environment, whereas response variability indicates the factors that limit the precision with which the brain can do this. There is increasing evidence that experimental manipulations that elicit response sub-additivity often also quench response variability.