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ArticleCognitive neurodynamics2018

Simulation of retinal ganglion cell response using fast independent component analysis.

Guanzheng Wang, Rubin Wang, Wanzheng Kong, Jianhai Zhang

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Article in Cognitive neurodynamics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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4 authors.

Guanzheng Wang2Institute for Cognitive Neurodynamics, School of Science, East China University of Science and Technology, Meilong Road 130, Shanghai, 200237 China.
Rubin Wang1College of Computer Science, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Zhejiang, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4110-2022
Wanzheng Kong1College of Computer Science, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Zhejiang, China.
Jianhai Zhang1College of Computer Science, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Zhejiang, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances in neurobiology suggest that neuronal response of the primary visual cortex to natural stimuli may be attributed to sparse approximation of images, encoding stimuli to activate specific neurons although the underlying mechanisms are still unclear. The responses of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) to natural and random checkerboard stimuli were simulated using fast independent component analysis. The neuronal response to stimuli was measured using kurtosis and Treves-Rolls sparseness, and the kurtosis, lifetime and population sparseness were analyzed. RGCs exhibited significant lifetime sparseness in response to natural stimuli and random checkerboard stimuli. About 65 and 72% of RGCs do not fire all the time in response to natural and random checkerboard stimuli, respectively. Both kurtosis of single neurons and lifetime response of single neurons values were larger in the case of natural than in random checkerboard stimuli. The population of RGCs fire much less in response to random checkerboard stimuli than natural stimuli. However, kurtosis of population sparseness and population response of the entire neurons were larger with natural than random checkerboard stimuli. RGCs fire more sparsely in response to natural stimuli. Individual neurons fire at a low rate, while the occasional "burst" of neuronal population transmits information efficiently.

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Independent component analysisKurtosisSparse codingSparsity

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PMID30483369
PMCPMC6233330

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