Discovering causal relations and equations from data

G Camps-Valls, A Gerhardus, U Ninad, G Varando… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Physics is a field of science that has traditionally used the scientific method to answer
questions about why natural phenomena occur and to make testable models that explain the …

Reconstructing computational system dynamics from neural data with recurrent neural networks

D Durstewitz, G Koppe, MI Thurm - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Computational models in neuroscience usually take the form of systems of differential
equations. The behaviour of such systems is the subject of dynamical systems theory …

[HTML][HTML] Flexible multitask computation in recurrent networks utilizes shared dynamical motifs

LN Driscoll, K Shenoy, D Sussillo - Nature Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Flexible computation is a hallmark of intelligent behavior. However, little is known about how
neural networks contextually reconfigure for different computations. In the present work, we …

Attractor dynamics reflect decision confidence in macaque prefrontal cortex

S Wang, R Falcone, B Richmond, BB Averbeck - Nature Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Decisions are made with different degrees of consistency, and this consistency can be
linked to the confidence that the best choice has been made. Theoretical work suggests that …

Beyond geometry: Comparing the temporal structure of computation in neural circuits with dynamical similarity analysis

M Ostrow, A Eisen, L Kozachkov… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
How can we tell whether two neural networks utilize the same internal processes for a
particular computation? This question is pertinent for multiple subfields of neuroscience and …

Population-level coding of avoidance learning in medial prefrontal cortex

B Ehret, R Boehringer, EA Amadei, MR Cervera… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been proposed to link sensory inputs and
behavioral outputs to mediate the execution of learned behaviors. However, how such a link …

Dynamics on the manifold: Identifying computational dynamical activity from neural population recordings

L Duncker, M Sahani - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
The question of how the collective activity of neural populations gives rise to complex
behaviour is fundamental to neuroscience. At the core of this question lie considerations …

Extracting computational mechanisms from neural data using low-rank RNNs

A Valente, JW Pillow, S Ostojic - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
An influential framework within systems neuroscience posits that neural computations can
be understood in terms of low-dimensional dynamics in recurrent circuits. A number of …

Signatures of task learning in neural representations

H Gurnani, NAC Gajic - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2023 - Elsevier
While neural plasticity has long been studied as the basis of learning, the growth of large-
scale neural recording techniques provides a unique opportunity to study how learning …

Aligned and oblique dynamics in recurrent neural networks

F Schuessler, F Mastrogiuseppe, S Ostojic… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The relation between neural activity and behaviorally relevant variables is at the heart of
neuroscience research. When strong, this relation is termed a neural representation. There …