Michalis Michaelos

The paper links neural representations to behavior by testing mice's responses to new stimuli and finding that neural discrimination correlates with behavioral performance in specific visual areas.

The paper shows that learning in the hippocampus produces orthogonalized neural representations resembling a state machine, captured by HMMs and biologically plausible networks, but not by gradient-based models.

The paper measures neural population coding precision in mouse visual cortex and finds that discrimination thresholds are much lower than behavioral thresholds, suggesting downstream decoding limitations.

Cellpose segments diverse 2D and 3D microscopy cell images without retraining by predicting topological gradient vector flows via a style-conditioned residual U-net and routing pixels to cell centers.