Clustering and control for adaptation uncovers time-warped spike time patterns in cortical networks in vivo
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS(2021)
摘要
How information in the nervous system is encoded by patterns of action potentials (i.e. spikes) remains an open question. Multi-neuron patterns of single spikes are a prime candidate for spike time encoding but their temporal variability requires further characterisation. Here we show how known sources of spike count variability affect stimulus-evoked spike time patterns between neurons separated over multiple layers and columns of adult rat somatosensory cortex in vivo. On subsets of trials (clusters) and after controlling for stimulus-response adaptation, spike time differences between pairs of neurons are “time-warped” (compressed/stretched) by trial-to-trial changes in shared excitability, explaining why fixed spike time patterns and noise correlations are seldom reported. We show that predicted cortical state is correlated between groups of 4 neurons, introducing the possibility of spike time pattern modulation by population-wide trial-to-trial changes in excitability (i.e. cortical state). Under the assumption of state-dependent coding, we propose an improved potential encoding capacity.
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Barrel cortex,Cortex,Neural circuits,Neural encoding,Sensory processing,Science,Humanities and Social Sciences,multidisciplinary
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