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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Sensory Perception

Background:

  • Improvements in perception often correlate with decreased correlated variability in the sensory cortex.
  • This inverse relationship is puzzling as changes in correlated variability should minimally impact optimal information coding.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the hypothesis that observers prioritize decoding strategy generality over optimality.
  • To explain the puzzling inverse relationship between perceptual performance and correlated neural variability.

Main Methods:

  • Multineuron recordings were conducted in the visual cortex of behaving rhesus monkeys.
  • A computational cortical circuit model was employed to simulate neural decoding strategies.
  • The study compared general decoding strategies with stimulus-specific optimal decoding.

Main Results:

  • General decoders, optimized for broad stimulus sets, better matched observed animal decoding strategies.
  • The performance of general decoders was more closely related to the magnitude of correlated neural variability.
  • Findings suggest a link between decoding strategy and neural variability.

Conclusions:

  • The inverse relationship between perceptual performance and correlated variability can be explained by the use of general decoding strategies.
  • Observers employ a general decoding approach to handle the variety of stimuli encountered in natural vision.
  • This generality in decoding offers a unified explanation for observed neural variability patterns during perceptual tasks.