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Hardik Rajpal^1,2,3, Cedric Stefens⁴, Meghdad Saeedian^1,2

¹Centre for Complexity Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

Frontiers in computational neuroscience

|February 23, 2026

Resumen

Las interacciones sinérgicas, no las redundantes, impulsan las correlaciones neuronales de largo alcance en la corteza visual durante la estimulación. Estos efectos sinérgicos, junto con las interacciones redundantes, mejoran el procesamiento de la información a través de las distancias.

Área de la Ciencia:

Neurociencia
Neurociencia Computacional
Neurociencia de Sistemas

Sus antecedentes:

Las correlaciones de largo alcance son cruciales para los sistemas críticos, permitiendo interacciones extendidas y propiedades emergentes como una alta susceptibilidad.
El cerebro exhibe correlaciones de largo alcance en todas las escalas, lo que sugiere criticidad para un procesamiento de información y adaptabilidad optimizados.
Los mecanismos que impulsan estas correlaciones neuronales de largo alcance siguen siendo en gran medida desconocidos.

Objetivo del estudio:

Investigar el papel de las interacciones sinérgicas en la mediación de correlaciones de largo alcance en la corteza visual del ratón despierto.
Comprender cómo los diferentes tipos de interacciones de información contribuyen a la comunicación neuronal.

Principales métodos:

Se utilizó imágenes de calcio de dos fotones a mesoescala para registrar la actividad de miles de neuronas en un amplio campo de visión.
Se aplicó el marco de Descomposición de Información Parcial (PID) para diferenciar las interacciones de información sinérgica y redundante.
Se analizaron redes de interacción combinadas para evaluar la eficiencia del procesamiento de la información.

Principales resultados:

Se confirmó la presencia de correlaciones de largo alcance a nivel de población neuronal.
Se encontró que el aumento de las correlaciones de largo alcance durante la estimulación visual se asoció con un aumento de las interacciones sinérgicas, no redundantes.
Se demostró que las interacciones sinérgicas y redundantes se complementan para un procesamiento de información eficiente a larga distancia, un efecto amplificado por la estimulación visual.

Conclusiones:

Las interacciones sinérgicas desempeñan un papel clave en la generación de correlaciones de largo alcance en la corteza visual.
La complementariedad entre las interacciones sinérgicas y redundantes es vital para el procesamiento eficiente de la información neuronal a través de las distancias.
Los hallazgos ofrecen nuevas perspectivas sobre la base computacional de las correlaciones de largo alcance en los sistemas neuronales.

Palabras clave:

imágenes de calcio información descomposición de información interacciones de largo alcance red multicapa redundancia sinergia

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