Nature Communications (May 2020)

Representation of visual uncertainty through neural gain variability

  • Olivier J. Hénaff,
  • Zoe M. Boundy-Singer,
  • Kristof Meding,
  • Corey M. Ziemba,
  • Robbe L. T. Goris

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15533-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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How does the brain represent sensory uncertainty? The authors find that neural gain variability tracks stimulus uncertainty across the visual hierarchy and explain their findings with a simple generalization of canonical models of neural computation.