Abstract
The response of a neuronal population to a stimulus can be summarized by a vector in a high-dimensional space. Learning theory suggests that the brain should be most able to produce distinct behavioral responses to two stimuli when the rate vectors they evoke are close to orthogonal. To investigate how learning modifies population codes, we measured the orientation tuning of 4,000-neuron populations in visual cortex before and after training on a visual discrimination task. Learning suppressed responses to the task-informative stimuli, most strongly amongst weakly-tuned neurons. This suppression reflected a simple change at the population level: sparsening of population responses to relevant stimuli, resulting in orthogonalization of their rate vectors. A model of F-I curve modulation, requiring no synaptic plasticity, quantitatively predicted the learning effect.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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