Blindfold learning of an accurate neural metric

@article{Gardella2018BlindfoldLO,
  title={Blindfold learning of an accurate neural metric},
  author={Christophe Gardella and Olivier Marre and Thierry Mora},
  journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
  year={2018},
  volume={115},
  pages={3267 - 3272}
}
  • C. Gardella, O. Marre, T. Mora
  • Published 13 October 2017
  • Biology, Computer Science, Psychology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Significance To understand how neural signals code sensory stimuli, most approaches require knowing both the true stimulus and the neural response. The brain, however, only has access to the neural signals put out by sensory organs. How can it learn to relate neural responses to sensory stimuli, especially for responses to which it has never been exposed? Here we show how to solve this problem by building a metric on neural responses such that responses to the same stimulus are close. Although… 
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