Liam Paninski

TL;DR: The functional significance of correlated firing in a complete population of macaque parasol retinal ganglion cells is analysed using a model of multi-neuron spike responses, and a model-based approach reveals the role of correlated activity in the retinal coding of visual stimuli, and provides a general framework for understanding the importance of correlation activity in populations of neurons.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use an exact local expansion of the entropy function to prove almost sure consistency and central limit theorems for three of the most commonly used discretized information estimators.

TL;DR: In this paper, the activity from a few motor cortex neurons can be decoded into a signal that a monkey is able to use immediately to move a computer cursor to any new position in its workspace.

TL;DR: This textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students provides a thorough and up-to-date introduction to the fields of computational and theoretical neuroscience.

TL;DR: This work presents a modular approach for analyzing calcium imaging recordings of large neuronal ensembles that relies on a constrained nonnegative matrix factorization that expresses the spatiotemporal fluorescence activity as the product of a spatial matrix that encodes the spatial footprint of each neurons in the optical field and a temporal matrix that characterizes the calcium concentration of each neuron over time.