The information bottleneck as a principle underlying multi-area cortical representations during decision-making
Michael Kleinman, Tian Wang, Derek Xiao, Ebrahim Feghhi, Eric Lee, Nicole Carr, Yuke Li, Nima Hadidi, Chandramouli Chandrasekaran, Jonathan C. Kao
The paper shows that brain areas form minimal sufficient representations of task inputs through preferential propagation of relevant information during decision-making.
bioRxiv · Jul 12, 2023 · PreprintNeuroscience