Uncovering structured responses of neural populations recorded from macaque monkeys with linear support vector machines

Summary: When a mammal, such as a macaque monkey, sees a complex natural image, many neurons in its visual cortex respond simultaneously. Here, we provide a protocol for studying the structure of population responses in laminar recordings with a machine learning model, the linear support vector mach...

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Main Author: Veronika Koren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-09-01
Series:STAR Protocols
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666166721004536
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Summary:Summary: When a mammal, such as a macaque monkey, sees a complex natural image, many neurons in its visual cortex respond simultaneously. Here, we provide a protocol for studying the structure of population responses in laminar recordings with a machine learning model, the linear support vector machine. To unravel the role of single neurons in population responses and the structure of noise correlations, we use a multivariate decoding technique on time-averaged responses.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Koren et al. (2020a).
ISSN:2666-1667