Coarse graining, fixed points, and scaling in a large population of neurons

Leenoy Meshulam, Jeffrey L. Gauthier, Carlos D. Brody, David W. Tank, William Bialek

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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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number178103
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume123
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 23 2019

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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