The advent of reliable simultaneous recording of the activity of many neurons has enabled the study of interactions between neurons at a large scale: the number of observed pairwise interactions is proportional to the square of the number of recorded neurons. The dominant phenomenon in these pairwise interactions is synchronization, reflecting a system where many observed variables have in common a smaller set of latent variables. This permits the possibility that the complex signals observed in the brain might be reducible to a simpler system. We used this insight to design a better signal processing scheme for neuroprosthetics; to identify the same neurons in many recording sessions from their pairwise interactions; to show that the tuning functions of neurons in motor and premotor cortex do not reflect simple coordinate frame models; and to identify error as a dominant signal during continuous movements.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PITT/oai:PITTETD:etd-04132011-154920 |
| Date | 14 April 2011 |
| Creators | Fraser, George Williams |
| Contributors | Andrew B Schwartz, Peter L Strick, Maneesh Sahani, Robert E Kass, Douglas J Weber, Tai Sing Lee |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh |
| Source Sets | University of Pittsburgh |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-04132011-154920/ |
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