Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Scaling of sensory information in large neural populations shows signatures of information-limiting correlations

  • MohammadMehdi Kafashan,
  • Anna W. Jaffe,
  • Selmaan N. Chettih,
  • Ramon Nogueira,
  • Iñigo Arandia-Romero,
  • Christopher D. Harvey,
  • Rubén Moreno-Bote,
  • Jan Drugowitsch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20722-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Information regarding a sensory stimulus is distributed in activity of neuronal populations. Here the authors show stimulus information scales sub-linearly with the number of neurons in mouse visual cortex due to correlated noise and may saturate in far fewer numbers of neurons than the total in V1.