cebra.ai - Learnable latent embeddings for joint behavioural and neural analysis

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Description: Mapping behavioural actions to neural activity is a fundamental goal of neuroscience. As our ability to record large neural and behavioural data increases, there is growing interest in modeling neural dynamics during adaptive behaviors to probe neural representations. In particular, neural latent embeddings can reveal underlying correlates of behavior, yet, we lack non-linear techniques that can explicitly and flexibly leverage joint behavior and neural data. Here, we fill this gap with a novel method, CEBR

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Application of CEBRA-Behavior to rat hippocampus data (Grosmark and Buzsáki, 2016), showing position/neural activity (left), overlayed with decoding obtained by CEBRA. The current point in embedding space is highlighted (right). CEBRA obtains a median absolute error of 5cm (total track length: 160cm; see pre-print for details). Video is played at 2x real-time speed.

CEBRA applied to mouse primary visual cortex, collected at the Allen Institute (de Vries et al. 2020, Siegle et al. 2021). 2-photon and Neuropixels recordings are embedded with CEBRA using DINO frame features as labels. The embedding is used to decode the video frames using a kNN decoder on the CEBRA-Behavior embedding from the test set.

Mapping behavioural actions to neural activity is a fundamental goal of neuroscience. As our ability to record large neural and behavioural data increases, there is growing interest in modeling neural dynamics during adaptive behaviors to probe neural representations. In particular, neural latent embeddings can reveal underlying correlates of behavior, yet, we lack non-linear techniques that can explicitly and flexibly leverage joint behavior and neural data to uncover neural dynamics. Here, we fill this ga

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