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JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 95, Issue 6, Pages 3633-3644Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00919.2005
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- NEI NIH HHS [P30-EY-01319] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01-MH-59216, T32-MH-19942] Funding Source: Medline
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Response variability is often correlated across populations of neurons, and these noise correlations may play a role in information coding. In previous studies, this possibility has been examined from the encoding and decoding perspectives. Here we used d prime and related information measures to examine how studies of noise correlations from these two perspectives are related. We found that for a pair of neurons, the effect of noise correlations on information decoding can be zero when the effect of noise correlations on the information encoded obtains its largest positive or negative values. Furthermore, there can be no effect of noise correlations on the information encoded when it has an effect on information decoding. We also measured the effect of noise correlations on information encoding and decoding in simultaneously recorded neurons in the supplementary motor area to see how well d prime accounted for the information actually present in the neural responses and to see how noise correlations affected encoding and decoding in real data. These analyses showed that d prime provides an accurate measure of information encoding and decoding in our population of neurons. We also found that the effect of noise correlations on information encoding was somewhat larger than the effect of noise correlations on information decoding, but both were relatively small. Finally, as predicted theoretically, the effects of correlations were slightly greater for larger ensembles (3 - 8 neurons) than for pairs of neurons.
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