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Marius Pachitariu¹, Lin Zhong², Alexa Gracias²

¹HHMI Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA, USA. pachitarium@janelia.hhmi.org.

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Brainwide neural activity coordination arises from simple, critical dynamics, unlike the hippocampus which uses efficient codes. These findings reveal how complex brain dynamics emerge from basic neural interactions.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Computational Neuroscience
Systems Neuroscience

Background:

Macroscopic coordination in brainwide neural activity persists beyond individual neuron timescales.
The emergence of these large-scale behaviors from microscopic neuronal interactions remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the principles governing large-scale neural activity dynamics.
To understand how macroscopic brain activity arises from microscopic neuronal interactions.
To explore the potential computational benefits of observed neural dynamics.

Main Methods:

Analysis of large-scale neural recordings in mice.
Comparison of neural dynamics to linear dynamics governed by critically normalized random symmetric matrices.
Modeling artificial neural networks with varying connectivity patterns (sparse, clustered, spatial).
Evaluation of network dynamics in time-dependent computational tasks.

Main Results:

Mouse neural activity broadly matches dynamics from critically normalized random matrices.
Hippocampal area CA1 shows distinct, efficient, uncorrelated neural coding potentially for information storage.
High-dimensional global activity modes emerged in normalized artificial networks and persisted across connectivity types.
These emergent dynamics proved effective for tasks like zero-shot working memory.

Conclusions:

Critically normalized linear dynamics can explain widespread macroscopic neural coordination.
The hippocampus may employ a specialized coding strategy distinct from the general brain dynamics.
Emergent dynamics in neural networks are robust to connectivity variations and useful for cognitive tasks.