A Novel Nonparametric Approach for Neural Encoding and Decoding Models of Multimodal Receptive Fields
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Author(s)
Agarwal, Rahul
Chen, Zhe
Kloosterman, Fabian
Wilson, Matthew A.
Sarma, Sridevi V.
Date Issued
June 2016
Journal
Neural Computation
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MIT Press
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Agarwal, Rahul, Zhe Chen, Fabian Kloosterman, Matthew A. Wilson, and Sridevi V. Sarma. “A Novel Nonparametric Approach for Neural Encoding and Decoding Models of Multimodal Receptive Fields.” Neural Computation 28, no. 7 (July 2016): 1356–1387.
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Abstract
Pyramidal neurons recorded from the rat hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, such as place and grid cells, have diverse receptive fields, which are either unimodal or multimodal. Spiking activity from these cells encodes information about the spatial position of a freely foraging rat. At fine timescales, a neuron’s spike activity also depends significantly on its own spike history. However, due to limitations of current parametric modeling approaches, it remains a challenge to estimate complex, multimodal neuronal receptive fields while incorporating spike history dependence. Furthermore, efforts to decode the rat’s trajectory in one- or two-dimensional space from hippocampal ensemble spiking activity have mainly focused on spike history–independent neuronal encoding models. In this letter, we address these two important issues by extending a recently introduced nonparametric neural encoding framework that allows modeling both complex spatial receptive fields and spike history dependencies. Using this extended nonparametric approach, we develop novel algorithms for decoding a rat’s trajectory based on recordings of hippocampal place cells and entorhinal grid cells. Results show that both encoding and decoding models derived from our new method performed significantly better than state-of-the-art encoding and decoding models on 6 minutes of test data. In addition, our model’s performance remains invariant to the apparent modality of the neuron’s receptive field.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
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https://doi.org/10.1162/NECO_a_00847
