Publications Related to Temporal Coding, Information, and Spike Train Dynamics


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Temporal coding and information

Intoy, J., Li, Y.H., Bowers, N., Victor, J.D., Poletti, M., and Rucci, M. (2024) Consequences of eye movements for spatial selectivity. Current Biology, doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.016.
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Lin, Y.-C., Intoy, J., Clark, A.M., Rucci, M., and Victor, J.D. (2023) Cognitive influences on fixational eye movements. Current Biology 8, 1606-1612.
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Zhao, Z., Ahissar, E., Victor, J.D., and Rucci, M.R. (2023) Inferring visual space from ultra-fine knowledge of gaze position in spatial vision. Nature Communications 14, 269.
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Guidolin, A., Desroches, M., Victor, J.D., Purpura, K.P., and Rodrigues, R. (2022) Geometry of spiking patterns in early visual cortex: a topological data analytic approach. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 19: 20220677.
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Sammons, J.D., Bass, C.E., Victor, J.D., and Di Lorenzo, P.M. (2020) Enhancing GABAergic tone in the rostral nucleus of the solitary tract reconfigures sensorimotor neural activity. J. Neurosci., doi: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0388-20.2020.
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Mostofi, N., Zhao, Z., Intoy, J., Boi, M., Victor, J.D., and Rucci, M. (2020) Spatiotemporal content of saccade transients. Current Biology 30, p3999-4008.e2.
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Kreuz, T., Houghton, C., and Victor, J.D. (2020) Spike train distance. In: Jaeger D., Jung R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. doi://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_409-2.
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Victor, J.D., Boie, S.D., Connor, E.G., Crimaldi, J., Ermentrout, B., and Nagel, K.I. (2019) Olfactory navigation and the receptor nonlinearity. J. Neurosci., 39, 3713-3727.
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Ohla, K., Yoshida, R., Roper, S.D., DiLorenzo, P.M., Victor, J.D., Boughter Jr., J.D., Fletcher, M., Katz, D.B., and Chaudhari, N. (2019) Recognizing taste: coding patterns along the neural axis in mammals. Chemical Senses 15, 237-247.
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Casile, A., Victor, J.D., and Rucci, M. (2019) Contrast sensitivity reveals an oculomotor strategy for temporally encoding space. eLife 2019;8:e40924. doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40924.
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Denman, A., Sammons, J.D., Victor, J.D., and DiLorenzo, P.M. (2019) Heterogeneity of neuronal responses in the nucleus of the solitary tract suggests sensorimotor integration in the neural code for taste. J. Neurophysiol. 121, 634-645.
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Rucci, M., and Victor, J.D. (2018) Perspective: Can eye movements contribute to emmetropization? Journal of Vision 18, 1–6.
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Boie, S.D., Connor, E.G., McHugh, M.K., Nagel, K.I., Ermentrout, G.B., Crimaldi,J.P., and Victor, J.D. (2018) Information-theoretic analysis of realistic odor plumes: What cues are useful for determining location? PLoS Computational Biology, in press.
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Boi, M., Poletti, M., Victor, J.D., and Rucci, M. (2017) Consequences of the oculomotor cycle for the dynamics of perception. Current Biology 27, 1268-77.
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Sammons, J.D., Weiss, M.S., Victor, J.D., and Di Lorenzo, P.M. (2016) Taste coding of complex naturalistic taste stimuli and traditional taste stimuli in the parabrachial pons of the awake, freely licking rat. J. Neurophysiol. 116, 171-182.
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Sammons, J.D., Weiss, M.S., Escanilla, O.D., Fooden, A.F., Victor, J.D., and Di Lorenzo, P.M. (2016) Spontaneous changes in taste sensitivity of single units recorded over consecutive days in the brainstem of the awake rat. PLoS ONE 2016;11, e0160143. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160143.
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Escanilla, O.D., Victor, J.D., and DiLorenzo, P.M. (2015) Odor-taste convergence in the nucleus of the solitary tract of the awake freely-licking rat. Olga D. Escanilla, Jonathan D. Victor, and Patricia M. Di Lorenzo Journal of Neuroscience 35, 6284-6297.
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Rucci, M., and Victor, J.D. (2015) The unsteady eye: an information processing stage, not a bug. Trends in Neurosciences 38, 195-206.
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Aytekin, M., Victor, J.D., and Rucci, M. (2014) The visual input to the retina during natural head-free fixation. The Journal of Neuroscience 34, 12701–12715.
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Victor, J.D. (2015) Spike train distance. In: Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Ed: D. Jaeger & R. Jung, pp 2808-2814. Springer New York, Heidelberg ,Dordrecht, London, online.
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Weiss, M., Victor, J.D., and DiLorenzo, P. (2014) Taste coding in the parabrachial nucleus of the pons in awake, freely licking rats, and comparison with the nucleus of the solitary tract. J. Neurophysiol. 111, 1655-1670.
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Victor, J.D., and Nirenberg, S. (2013) Spike trains as event sequences: Fundamental implications. In, Spike Timing: Mechanisms and Function. Eds: Patricia DiLorenzo and Jonathan Victor. Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, 3-33.
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Roussin, A.T., D'Agostino, A.E., Fooden, A.M., Victor, J.D., and DiLorenzo, P.M. (2012) Taste coding in the nucleus of the solitary tract of the awake, freely licking rat. J. Neurosci. 32, 10494-10506.
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Kuang, X., Poletti, M., Victor, J.D., and Rucci, M. (2012) Temporal encoding of spatial information during active visual fixation. Current Biology 22, 510–514.
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Dimitrov, A.G., Lazar, A.A., and Victor, J.D. (2011) Information theory in neuroscience. J Comput. Neurosci. 30, 1-5.
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Rosen, A.M., Victor, J.D, and DiLorenzo, P.D. (2011) Temporal coding of taste in the parabrachial nucleus of the pons of the rat. J. Neurophysiol. 105, 1889-1896.
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Chen, J.-Y., Victor, J.D., and Di Lorenzo, P. (2011) Temporal coding of intensity of NaCl and HCl in the nucleus of the solitary tract of the rat. J. Neurophysiol. 105, 697-711.
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Ohiorhenuan, I.E., and Victor, J.D. (2011) Information-geometric measure of 3-neuron firing patterns characterizes scale-dependence in cortical networks. J. Comput. Neurosci. 30, 125-141.
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Houghton, C., and Victor, J.D. (2011) Measuring representational distances – the spike metric approach. In Understanding Visual Population Codes – Towards a Common Multivariate Framework for Cell Recording and Functional Imaging. Eds: Nikolaus Kriegeskorte and Gabriel Kreiman. MIT Press, in press.
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Ohiorhenuan, I.E., Mechler, F., Purpura, K.P., Schmid, A.M., and Victor, J.D. (2010) Sparse coding and high-order correlations in fine-scale cortical networks. Nature 466 617–621.
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Victor, J.D., and Purpura, K.P. (2010) Spike Metrics. In: Analysis of Parallel Spike Trains. Ed. Stefan Rotter and Sonja Gruen. Springer, pp. 129-156.
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Nirenberg, S., Bomash, I., Pillow, J.W., and Victor, J.D. (2010) Heterogeneous response dynamics in retinal ganglion cells: the interplay of predictive coding and adaptation. J. Neurophysiol. 103, 3184-3194.
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Pandarinath, C., Victor, J.D., and Nirenberg, S. (2010) Symmetry breakdown in the ON and OFF pathways of the retina at night: functional implications. J. Neurosci. 30,10006-10014.
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Goldberg, D.H., Victor, J.D., Gardner, E.P., and Gardner, D., (2009) Spike Train Analysis Toolkit: Enabling wider application of information-theoretic techniques to neurophysiology. Neuroinformatics 7, 165-178.
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Di Lorenzo, P., Chen, J.-Y., and Victor, J.D. (2009) Quality time: Representation of a multidimensional sensory domain through temporal coding. J. Neurosci. 29, 9227-9238.
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Di Lorenzo, P.M., Platt, D. and Victor, J.D. (2009) Information processing in the parabrachial nucleus of the pons: Temporal relationships of input and output. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1170, 365–371.
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Victor, J.D., and Nirenberg S. (2008) Indices for testing neural codes. Neural Comput. 20, 2895-2936.
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Roussin, A.T., Victor, J.D., Chen, J.-Y.and Di Lorenzo, P.M. (2008) Variability in responses and temporal coding of tastants of similar quality in the nucleus of the solitary tract of the rat. J. Neurophysiol., 99 (2): 644-655.
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Nirenberg, S., and Victor, J.D. (2007) Analyzing the activity of large populations of neurons - how tractable is the problem? Current Opinion in Neurobiology 17, 397-400.
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Mechler, F., Ohiorhenuan, I.E., and Victor, J.D. (2007) Speed dependence of tuning to one-dimensional features in V1. J. Neurophysiol., 97, 2423-2438.
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Di Lorenzo, P.M., and Victor, J.D. (2007) Neural coding mechanisms for flow rate in taste-responsive cells in the nucleus of the solitary tract of the rat. J. Neurophysiol. 97, 1857-1861.
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Victor, J.D., Goldberg, D., and Gardner, D. (2007) Dynamic programming algorithms for comparing multineuronal spike trains via cost-based metrics and alignments. J. Neurosci. Meth. 161, 351-360.
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Victor, J.D. (2006) Approaches to information-theoretic analysis of neural activity. Biological Theory 1, 302-316.
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Victor, J.D., Mechler, F., Repucci, M.A., Purpura, K.P., and Sharpee, T. (2006) Responses of V1 neurons to two-dimensional Hermite functions. J. Neurophysiol. 95, 379-400.
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Victor, J.D. (2005) Spike train metrics. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 15, 585–592.
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Aronov, D., and Victor, J. (2004) Non-Euclidean properties of spike train metric spaces. Phys. Rev. E69, 61905.
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Di Lorenzo, P.M, and Victor, J.D. (2003) Taste response variability and temporal coding in the nucleus of the solitary tract of the rat. J. Neurophysiol. 90, 1418-1433.
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Aronov, D. (2003) Fast algorithm for the metric-space analysis of simultaneous responses of multiple single neurons. J. Neuroscience Methods 124, 175-179.
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Victor, J.D., and Brown, E. (2003) Information and statistical structure in spike trains. Network 14, 1-4.
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Aronov, D., Reich, D.S., Mechler, F., and Victor, J.D. (2003) Neural coding of spatial phase in V1 of the macaque monkey. J. Neurophysiol. 89, 3304-3327.
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Mechler, F., Reich, D.S., and Victor, J.D. (2002) Detection and discrimination of relative spatial phase by V1 neurons. J. Neurosci. 22, 6129-6157.
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Victor, J.D. (2002) Binless strategies for estimation of information from neural data. Phys. Rev. E. 66, 51903.
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Reich, D.S., Mechler, F., and Victor, J.D. (2001) Independent and redundant information in nearby cortical neurons. Science 294, 2566-2568.
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Reich, D.S., Mechler, F., and Victor, J.D. (2001) Temporal coding of contrast in primary visual cortex: when, what, and why? J. Neurophysiol. 85, 1039-1050.
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Reich, D.S., Mechler, F., and Victor, J.D. (2001) Formal and attribute-specific information in primary visual cortex. J. Neurophysiol. 85, 305-318.
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Victor, J.D. (2000) How the brain uses time to represent and process visual information. In Towards 2010 - A Brain Odyssey. ed: F. Bloom. Brain Res. 886, 33-46.
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Victor, J.D. (2000) Asymptotic bias in information estimates and the exponential (Bell) polynomials. Neural Computation 12, 2797-2804.
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Victor, J.D. (1999) Temporal aspects of neural coding in the retina and lateral geniculate: a review. Network 10, R1-66.
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Victor, J.D., and Purpura, K.P. (1999) Estimation of information in neuronal responses. Trends in Neurosciences 22, 543.
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Mechler, F., Victor, J.D., Purpura, K.P., and Shapley, R. (1998) Robust temporal coding of contrast by V1 neurons for transient but not steady-state stimuli. J. Neurosci. 18, 6583-6598.
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Victor, J.D., and Purpura, K.P. (1998) Spatial phase and the temporal structure of the response to gratings in V1. J. Neurophysiol. 80, 554-571.
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Victor, J.D., and Purpura, K.P. (1997) Sensory coding in cortical neurons: recent results and speculations. In: Frontiers of Neurology: A Symposium in Honor of Fred Plum. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 835, 330-352.
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Victor, J.D., and Purpura, K. (1997) Metric-space analysis of spike trains: theory, algorithms, and application. Network 8, 127-164.
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Victor, J.D., and Purpura, K. (1996) Nature and precision of temporal coding in visual cortex: a metric-space analysis. J. Neurophysiol. 76, 1310-1326.
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Victor, J.D., Purpura, K., Katz, E., and Mao, B. (1994) Population encoding of spatial frequency, orientation, and color in macaque V1. J. Neurophysiol. 72, 2151-2166.
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Spike train dynamics

Guidolin, A., Desroches, M., Victor, J.D., Purpura, K.P., and Rodrigues, R. (2022) Geometry of spiking patterns in early visual cortex: a topological data analytic approach. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 19: 20220677.
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Ohiorhenuan, I.E., Mechler, F., Purpura, K.P., Schmid, A.M., Hu, Q., and Victor, J.D. (2014) Cannabinoid neuromodulation in the adult early visual cortex. PLoS ONE 9, e87362.
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Hudson, A.E., Schiff, N.D., Victor, J.D, and Purpura, K.P. (2009) Attentional modulation of adaptation in V4. Eur. J. Neurosci. 30,151-171.
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Bondar , I.V., Leopold, D.A., Richmond, B.J., Victor, J.D., and Logothetis, N.K. (2009) Long-term stability of visual pattern selective responses of monkey temporal lobe neurons. PLOS ONE, 4(12):e8222
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Victor, J.D., Blessing, E., Forte, J.D., Buzás, P., and Martin, P. R. (2007) Response variability of marmoset parvocellular neurons. J. Physiol. (Lond) 579, 29-51.
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Casti, A., Omurtag, A., Sornborger, A., Kaplan, E., Sirovich, L., Knight, B., and Victor, J.D. (2002) A population study of integrate-and-fire-or-burst neurons. Neural Computation 14, 957-986.
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Reich, D.S., Mechler, F., Purpura, K.P., and Victor, J.D. (2000) Interspike intervals, receptive fields, and information encoding in primary visual cortex. J. Neurosci. 20, 1964-1974.
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Schiff, N.D., Purpura, K.P., and Victor, J.D. (1999) Gating of local network signals appears as stimulus-dependent activity envelopes in striate cortex. J. Neurophysiol. 82, 2182-2196.
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Reich, D.S., Victor, J.D., and Knight, B.W. (1998) The power ratio and the interval map: spiking models and extracellular data. J. Neurosci. 18, 10090-10104.
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Reich, D.S., Victor, J.D., Knight, B.W., Ozaki, T., and Kaplan, E. (1997) Response variability and timing precision of neuronal spike trains in vivo. J. Neurophysiol. 77, 2836-2841.
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