@article{1c5511643cb84da9bddeefc3e1c318f2,
title = "Coarse graining, fixed points, and scaling in a large population of neurons",
abstract = "We develop a phenomenological coarse-graining procedure for activity in a large network of neurons, and apply this to recordings from a population of 1000+ cells in the hippocampus. Distributions of coarse-grained variables seem to approach a fixed non-Gaussian form, and we see evidence of scaling in both static and dynamic quantities. These results suggest that the collective behavior of the network is described by a nontrivial fixed point.",
author = "Leenoy Meshulam and Gauthier, {Jeffrey L.} and Brody, {Carlos D.} and Tank, {David W.} and William Bialek",
note = "Funding Information: We thank S. Bradde, A. Cavagna, D. S. Fisher, I. Giardina, M. O. Magnasco, S. E. Palmer, and D. J. Schwab for helpful discussions. Work supported in part by the National Science Foundation through the Center for the Physics of Biological Function (Grant No. PHY–1734030), the Center for the Science of Information (Grant No. CCF–0939370), and Grant No. PHY–1607612; by the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain; by the National Institutes of Health (Grant No. 1R01EB026943–01); and by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 American Physical Society.",
year = "2019",
month = oct,
day = "23",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.178103",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "123",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "17",
}