Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Natural images are reliably represented by sparse and variable populations of neurons in visual cortex

  • Takashi Yoshida,
  • Kenichi Ohki

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14645-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Natural scenes sparsely activate V1 neurons. Here, the authors show that a small number of active cells reliably represent visual contents of a natural image across trials regardless of response variability, due to the diverse and partially overlapping representations of individual cells.