Stephen David

A. Spectro-temporal filters define three most important dimensions for each of 8 neurons in a cortical column. B. SSRFs show regions in the subspace that evoke activity for that neuron. C. 1D SSRF marginals show tuning that can be monotonic or U-shaped. D. SSRFs produce very diverse time-varying activity across a cortical column, despite most neurons sharing a very similar tuning subspace.

Figure 3. Diversity of subspace models within a single recording site.

Schematic of procedure for measuring subspace from DNN model. Traces illustrate the projection of a natural sound stimulus onto each subspace dimension, subspace receptive fields (SSRFs) map from the subspace projection to neural spike rate.

Oops, managed not to attach a figure in the original post. Figure 1. Mapping from CNN to subspace encoding models. rdcu.be/e5gLY

Call it #ExplainableAI or just making sense of complexity. We establish a direct link between DNNs fit to #AuditoryCortex and more intuitive subspace models from the 2000s. Congrats @jeremewingert.bsky.social @satyaparida.bsky.social & Sam Norman-Haignere! #NeuroAI #SensoryNeuroscience rdcu.be/e5gLY

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Don’t be a useful idiot puppet for the regime I say this to myself regularly in the past weeks, mostly when it comes to sitting on my hands about my regular NIH-related and academic science career-related hobby horse issues as they arise. We h…

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As outcry builds over Trump cuts to NIH payments, drugmakers are MIA Drugmakers — major beneficiaries of NIH-backed university research — have been largely silence on the Trump administration's cuts to agency research payments.

This article is practically ancient (several days old), but it still resonates. In my bubble, I only hear complaints from universities and professional organizations. Does biotech value basic science research? www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/n...

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