Leenoy Meshulam, Jeffrey L. Gauthier, Carlos D. Brody, David W. Tank, William Bialek. Physical Review Letters (2019) (Physical Review Letters) (local cache)

Abstract

We develop a phenomenological coarse-graining procedure for activity in a large network of neurons, and apply this to recordings from a population of 1000+ cells in the hippocampus. Distributions of coarse-grained variables seem to approach a fixed non-Gaussian form, and we see evidence of scaling in both static and dynamic quantities. These results suggest that the collective behavior of the network is described by a nontrivial fixed point.