Revealing nonlinear neural decoding by analyzing choices

Sensory data about most natural task-relevant variables are entangled with task-irrelevant nuisance variables. Here, the authors present a theoretical framework for quantifying how the brain uses or decodes its nonlinear information which indicates near-optimal nonlinear decoding.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Qianli Yang, Edgar Walker, R. James Cotton, Andreas S. Tolias, Xaq Pitkow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26793-9