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Mario Dipoppa^1,2,3, Ramon Nogueira^2,4,5, Stéphane Bugeon³

¹Department of Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Biorxiv : the Preprint Server for Biology

|February 3, 2025

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Sensory adaptation improves the brain

Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Computational Neuroscience
Visual Perception

Background:

Sensory adaptation alters neural responses based on prior stimuli.
Previous studies characterized adaptation effects on average neural responses.
The impact of adaptation on single-trial representational geometry and noise structure remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how sensory adaptation affects the geometry of neural representations and stimulus discriminability.
To understand the relationship between adaptation, efficient coding, and metabolic constraints in neural processing.

Main Methods:

Recorded population neural activity in the mouse visual cortex.
Presented stimuli with varying frequencies to induce adaptation.

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Analyzed representational geometry and used linear decoders to assess stimulus discriminability from single-trial population responses.

Modeled adaptation effects in artificial neural networks under metabolic constraints.

Main Results:

Stimulus discriminability improved for stimuli near the frequently presented adaptor, despite reduced individual neuron responses.
Adaptation enhanced the representation of frequent stimuli.
Similar effects were observed in artificial neural networks, suggesting a principle of efficient coding.

Conclusions:

Paradoxical effects of sensory adaptation are explained by efficient coding principles.
Adaptation optimizes neural representations for frequent stimuli while minimizing metabolic cost.
This mechanism allows the brain to efficiently process sensory information under metabolic constraints.