Ignoring correlated activity causes a failure of retinal population codes

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 11; no. 1; p. 4605
• Main Authors: Ruda, Kiersten, Zylberberg, Joel, Field, Greg D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 14.09.2020; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/378/116/2394; 631/378/2613/1786; 9/10; Adaptation; Brain; Correlation; Decoding; Failure; Humanities and Social Sciences; Light intensity; Light levels; Local population; Luminous intensity; multidisciplinary; Noise; Population; Populations; Retina; Retinal ganglion cells; Science; Science (multidisciplinary)

From starlight to sunlight, adaptation alters retinal output, changing both the signal and noise among populations of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Here we determine how these light level-dependent changes impact decoding of retinal output, testing the importance of accounting for RGC noise correla...