A Statistical Model of Shared Variability in the Songbird Auditory System
Lars Buesing, Ana Calabrese, John Patrick Cunningham, Sarah M. N. Woolley, Liam Paninski
The paper develops a latent factor model to analyze shared variability in neural activity of zebra finch auditory cortex during song and synthetic sound stimulation, finding a simple structure dominated by one latent source.
bioRxiv · Mar 4, 2017 · PreprintNeuroscience