A general decoding strategy explains the relationship between behavior and correlated variability

Improvements in perception are frequently accompanied by decreases in correlated variability in sensory cortex. This relationship is puzzling because overall changes in correlated variability should minimally affect optimal information coding. We hypothesize that this relationship arises because ins...

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Main Authors: Amy M Ni, Chengcheng Huang, Brent Doiron, Marlene R Cohen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2022-06-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/67258