Artículo
Unsupervised Bayesian Ising Approximation for decoding neural activity and other biological dictionaries
Fecha de publicación:
03/2022
Editorial:
eLife Sciences Publications
Revista:
eLife
ISSN:
2050-084X
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Inglés
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Resumen
The problem of deciphering how low-level patterns (action potentials in the brain, amino acids in a protein, etc.) drive high-level biological features (sensorimotor behavior, enzymatic function) represents the central challenge of quantitative biology. The lack of general methods for doing so from the size of datasets that can be collected experimentally severely limits our understanding of the biological world. For example, in neuroscience, some sensory and motor codes have been shown to consist of precisely timed multi-spike patterns. However, the combinatorial complexity of such pattern codes have precluded development of methods for their comprehensive analysis. Thus, just as it is hard to predict a protein’s function based on its sequence, we still do not understand how to accurately predict an organism’s behavior based on neural activity. Here we introduce the unsupervised Bayesian Ising Approximation (uBIA) for solving this class of problems. We demonstrate its utility in an application to neural data, detecting precisely timed spike patterns that code for specific motor behaviors in a songbird vocal system. In data recorded during singing from neurons in a vocal control region, our method detects such codewords with an arbitrary number of spikes, does so from small data sets, and accounts for dependencies in occurrences of codewords. Detecting such comprehensive motor control dictionaries can improve our understanding of skilled motor control and the neural bases of sensorimotor learning in animals. To further illustrate the utility of uBIA, used it to identify the distinct sets of activity patterns that encode vocal motor exploration versus typical song production. Crucially, our method can be used not only for analysis of neural systems, but also for understanding the structure of correlations in other biological and nonbiological datasets.
Palabras clave:
decoding
,
dictionaries
,
bayesian
,
neural
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Hernández Lahme, Damián Gabriel; Sober, Samuel J.; Nemenman, Ilya; Unsupervised Bayesian Ising Approximation for decoding neural activity and other biological dictionaries; eLife Sciences Publications; eLife; 11; 3-2022; 1-28
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