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Neural Population Control via Deep Image Synthesis

View ORCID ProfilePouya Bashivan, View ORCID ProfileKohitij Kar, View ORCID ProfileJames DiCarlo
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/461525
Pouya Bashivan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Abstract

Particular deep artificial neural networks (ANNs) are today's most accurate models of the primate brain's ventral visual stream. Here we report that, using a targeted ANN-driven image synthesis method, new luminous power patterns (i.e. images) can be applied to the primate retinae to predictably push the spiking activity of targeted V4 neural sites beyond naturally occurring levels. More importantly, this method, while not yet perfect, already achieves unprecedented independent control of the activity state of entire populations of V4 neural sites, even those with overlapping receptive fields. These results show how the knowledge embedded in today's ANN models might be used to non-invasively set desired internal brain states at neuron-level resolution, and suggest that more accurate ANN models would produce even more accurate control.

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Pouya Bashivan, Kohitij Kar, James DiCarlo
bioRxiv 461525; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/461525
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Pouya Bashivan, Kohitij Kar, James DiCarlo
bioRxiv 461525; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/461525

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