Omitted Variable Bias in GLMs of Neural Spiking Activity

‘Necessary and sufficient’ in biology is not necessarily necessary – confusions and erroneous conclusions resulting from misapplied logic in the field of biology, especially neuroscience

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Revealing unobserved factors underlying cortical activity with a rectified latent variable model applied to neural population recordings

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Perspectives on classical controversies about the motor cortex

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Distinct timescales of population coding across cortex

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Capturing the Dynamical Repertoire of Single Neurons with Generalized Linear Models

(2017) Alison I. Weber et al.   NEURAL COMPUTATION

Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist Bias

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Inferring oscillatory modulation in neural spike trains

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Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?

(2017) Eric Jonas et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

On the stability and dynamics of stochastic spiking neuron models: Nonlinear Hawkes process and point process GLMs

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Why neurons mix: high dimensionality for higher cognition

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Multiplicative and Additive Modulation of Neuronal Tuning with Population Activity Affects Encoded Information

(2016) Iñigo Arandia-Romero et al.   NEURON

Diverse coupling of neurons to populations in sensory cortex

(2015) Michael Okun et al.   NATURE

The Nature of Shared Cortical Variability

(2015) I-Chun Lin et al.   NEURON

Ambiguity and nonidentifiability in the statistical analysis of neural codes: Fig. 1.

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Identifying and Tracking Simulated Synaptic Inputs from Neuronal Firing: Insights from In Vitro Experiments

(2015) Maxim Volgushev et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Partitioning neuronal variability

(2014) Robbe L T Goris et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Encoding and decoding in parietal cortex during sensorimotor decision-making

(2014) Il Memming Park et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Pupil Fluctuations Track Fast Switching of Cortical States during Quiet Wakefulness

(2014) Jacob Reimer et al.   NEURON

Saliency and Saccade Encoding in the Frontal Eye Field During Natural Scene Search

(2013) Hugo L. Fernandes et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Space in the brain: how the hippocampal formation supports spatial cognition

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The Database for Reaching Experiments and Models

(2013) Ben Walker et al.   PLoS One

Intermediate intrinsic diversity enhances neural population coding

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Successful Reconstruction of a Physiological Circuit with Known Connectivity from Spiking Activity Alone

(2013) Felipe Gerhard et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Inferring Nonlinear Neuronal Computation Based on Physiologically Plausible Inputs

(2013) James M. McFarland et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Movement representation in the primary motor cortex and its contribution to generalizable EMG predictions

(2012) Emily R. Oby et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Estimating nonstationary input signals from a single neuronal spike train

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Modeling the impact of common noise inputs on the network activity of retinal ganglion cells

(2011) Michael Vidne et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE

Statistical assessment of the stability of neural movement representations

(2011) Ian H. Stevenson et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Decoding the activity of neuronal populations in macaque primary visual cortex

(2011) Arnulf B A Graf et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

To Explain or to Predict?

(2011) Galit Shmueli   STATISTICAL SCIENCE

Local field potentials indicate network state and account for neuronal response variability

(2010) Ryan C. Kelly et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE

Latent Inputs Improve Estimates of Neural Encoding in Motor Cortex

(2010) S. M. Chase et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Nonconvergence in Logistic and Poisson Models for Neural Spiking

(2010) Mengyuan Zhao et al.   NEURAL COMPUTATION

Modulation of Visual Responses by Behavioral State in Mouse Visual Cortex

(2010) Cristopher M. Niell et al.   NEURON

The Neurobiological Basis of Cognition: Identification by Multi-Input, Multioutput Nonlinear Dynamic Modeling

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A new look at state-space models for neural data

(2009) Liam Paninski et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE

Rapid Synaptic Depression Explains Nonlinear Modulation of Spectro-Temporal Tuning in Primary Auditory Cortex by Natural Stimuli

(2009) S. V. David et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Collective dynamics in human and monkey sensorimotor cortex: predicting single neuron spikes

(2009) Wilson Truccolo et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Theta Oscillations Provide Temporal Windows for Local Circuit Computation in the Entorhinal-Hippocampal Loop

(2009) Kenji Mizuseki et al.   NEURON

Traditional waveform based spike sorting yields biased rate code estimates

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Analysis of Between-Trial and Within-Trial Neural Spiking Dynamics

(2008) Gabriela Czanner et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Spatial and Temporal Scales of Neuronal Correlation in Primary Visual Cortex

(2008) M. A. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Hippocampal Network Dynamics Constrain the Time Lag between Pyramidal Cells across Modified Environments

(2008) K. Diba et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Spatio-temporal correlations and visual signalling in a complete neuronal population

(2008) Jonathan W. Pillow et al.   NATURE

Inferring input nonlinearities in neural encoding models

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