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Continuous partitioning of neuronal variability.

Anuththara Rupasinghe¹, Adam S Charles², Jonathan W Pillow¹

¹Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544.

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|August 8, 2025

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Neural variability, a challenge in neuroscience, is now modeled continuously. The new continuous modulated Poisson (CMP) model partitions neural variability, offering insights into stimulus-driven and modulatory processes across visual brain areas.

Keywords:

Gaussian processes neural coding spike train statistics variability visual cortex

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Neuroscience
Computational Neuroscience
Systems Neuroscience

Background:

Neural variability complicates understanding neural codes.
Existing models partition variability into stimulus and modulatory components but lack continuous-time interpretation.
Previous frameworks are limited to fixed time bins, hindering generalization across timescales.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a continuous-time model for partitioning neural variability.
To extend existing frameworks to a continuous-time domain.
To analyze neural variability across different visual brain areas and timescales.

Main Methods:

Introduced the continuous modulated Poisson (CMP) model.
Modeled instantaneous firing rate as a product of stimulus drive and stochastic gain.
Applied the CMP model to spike responses from the LGN, V1, V2, and MT visual areas.

Main Results:

The CMP model accurately captures spike train variability across timescales and visual hierarchy.
Demonstrated that the modulatory gain process follows an exponentiated power law decay.
Observed higher variance and slower decay in the modulatory gain at later visual processing stages.

Conclusions:

The CMP model provides a continuous-time framework for neural variability analysis.
Revealed insights into the organization of stimulus-driven and stimulus-independent modulatory processes.
Offers a powerful tool for characterizing neural variability across diverse brain regions.