Tackling the subsampling problem to infer collective properties from limited data

A Levina, V Priesemann, J Zierenberg - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the development of large-scale data-acquisition techniques, experimental
observations of complex systems are often limited to a tiny fraction of the system under …

[HTML][HTML] The diversity and specificity of functional connectivity across spatial and temporal scales

TA Engel, ML Schölvinck, CM Lewis - Neuroimage, 2021 - Elsevier
Macroscopic neuroimaging modalities in humans have revealed the organization of brain-
wide activity into distributed functional networks that re-organize according to behavioral …

Multiple timescales of sensory-evidence accumulation across the dorsal cortex

L Pinto, DW Tank, CD Brody - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Cortical areas seem to form a hierarchy of intrinsic timescales, but the relevance of this
organization for cognitive behavior remains unknown. In particular, decisions requiring the …

Spatial and temporal correlations in neural networks with structured connectivity

YL Shi, R Zeraati, A Levina, TA Engel - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
This article is part of the Physical Review Research collection titled Physics of
Neuroscience. Correlated fluctuations in the activity of neural populations reflect the …

[HTML][HTML] A flexible Bayesian framework for unbiased estimation of timescales

R Zeraati, TA Engel, A Levina - Nature computational science, 2022 - nature.com
Timescales characterize the pace of change for many dynamic processes in nature. They
are usually estimated by fitting the exponential decay of data autocorrelation in the time or …

Perception and propagation of activity through the cortical hierarchy is determined by neural variability

JM Rowland, TL van der Plas, M Loidolt, RM Lees… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
The brains of higher organisms are composed of anatomically and functionally distinct
regions performing specialised tasks; but regions do not operate in isolation. Orchestration …

Internally generated population activity in cortical networks hinders information transmission

C Huang, A Pouget, B Doiron - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
How neuronal variability affects sensory coding is a central question in systems
neuroscience, often with complex and model-dependent answers. Many studies explore …

Estimation of autocorrelation timescales with Approximate Bayesian Computations

R Zeraati, TA Engel, A Levina - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Timescales characterize the pace of change for many dynamic processes in nature:
radioactive decay, metabolization of substances, memory decay in neural systems, and …

A composite electrodynamic mechanism to reconcile spatiotemporally resolved exciton transport in quantum dot superlattices

R Yuan, TD Roberts, RM Brinn, AA Choi, HH Park… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Quantum dot (QD) solids are promising optoelectronic materials; further advancing their
device functionality requires understanding their energy transport mechanisms. The …

[HTML][HTML] Neural timescales reflect behavioral demands in freely moving rhesus macaques

AMG Manea, DJN Maisson, B Voloh… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Previous work demonstrated a highly reproducible cortical hierarchy of neural timescales at
rest, with sensory areas displaying fast, and higher-order association areas displaying …