Representational drift: Emerging theories for continual learning and experimental future directions

LN Driscoll, L Duncker, CD Harvey - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent work has revealed that the neural activity patterns correlated with sensation,
cognition, and action often are not stable and instead undergo large scale changes over …

Variance and invariance of neuronal long-term representations

C Clopath, T Bonhoeffer… - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The brain extracts behaviourally relevant sensory input to produce appropriate motor output.
On the one hand, our constantly changing environment requires this transformation to be …

Long-term stability of cortical population dynamics underlying consistent behavior

JA Gallego, MG Perich, RH Chowdhury, SA Solla… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Animals readily execute learned behaviors in a consistent manner over long periods of time,
and yet no equally stable neural correlate has been demonstrated. How does the cortex …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic reorganization of neuronal activity patterns in parietal cortex

LN Driscoll, NL Pettit, M Minderer, SN Chettih… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Neuronal representations change as associations are learned between sensory stimuli and
behavioral actions. However, it is poorly understood whether representations for learned …

Stimulus-dependent representational drift in primary visual cortex

TD Marks, MJ Goard - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
To produce consistent sensory perception, neurons must maintain stable representations of
sensory input. However, neurons in many regions exhibit progressive drift across days …

Stabilization of a brain–computer interface via the alignment of low-dimensional spaces of neural activity

AD Degenhart, WE Bishop, ER Oby… - Nature biomedical …, 2020 - nature.com
The instability of neural recordings can render clinical brain–computer interfaces (BCIs)
uncontrollable. Here, we show that the alignment of low-dimensional neural manifolds (low …

Is coding a relevant metaphor for the brain?

R Brette - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019 - cambridge.org
“Neural coding” is a popular metaphor in neuroscience, where objective properties of the
world are communicated to the brain in the form of spikes. Here I argue that this metaphor is …

Plug-and-play control of a brain–computer interface through neural map stabilization

DB Silversmith, R Abiri, NF Hardy, N Natraj… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) enable control of assistive devices in individuals with
severe motor impairments. A limitation of BCIs that has hindered real-world adoption is poor …

Intra-day signal instabilities affect decoding performance in an intracortical neural interface system

JA Perge, ML Homer, WQ Malik, S Cash… - Journal of neural …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Motor neural interface systems (NIS) aim to convert neural signals into motor
prosthetic or assistive device control, allowing people with paralysis to regain movement or …

Intracortical recording stability in human brain–computer interface users

JE Downey, N Schwed, SM Chase… - Journal of neural …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Intracortical brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) are being developed to assist
people with motor disabilities in communicating and interacting with the world around them …