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Low rank mechanisms underlying flexible visual representations

Douglas A. Ruff, Cheng Xue, Lily E. Kramer, Faisal Baqai, Marlene R. Cohen
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/730978

Abstract

Neuronal population responses to sensory stimuli are remarkably flexible. The responses of neurons in visual cortex depend on stimulus properties (e.g. contrast), processes that affect all stages of visual processing (e.g. adaptation), and cognitive processes (e.g attention or task switching). The effects of all of these processes on trial-averaged responses of individual neurons are well-described by divisive normalization, in which responses are scaled by the total stimulus drive. Normalization describes how a staggering variety of sensory, cognitive, and motor processes affect individual neurons (1), but whether different normalization processes could be mediated by the same mechanism remains poorly understood. We and others recently showed that attention has low rank effects on the covariability of populations of neurons in visual area V4 (2–4), which strongly constrains mechanistic models mechanism (2). We hypothesized that measuring changes in population covariability associated with other normalization processes could clarify whether they might share a mechanism. Our experimental design included measurements in multiple visual areas using four normalization processes. We found that contrast, adaptation, attention, and task switching affect the responses of populations of neurons in primate visual cortex in a similarly low rank way. These results suggest that a given circuit uses a common mechanism to perform many forms of normalization and likely reflect a general principle that applies to a wide range of brain areas and sensory, cognitive, or motor processes.

Introduction

Understanding the biological basis of a neural computation can clarify the cognitive processes by which our brains convert information about the sensory world into action. Divisive normalization, in which the responses of individual neurons are divisively scaled by the mean drive to the population, is a simple computation that explains a wide variety of sensory, cognitive, and motor processes. In the visual system, normalization accounts for the modulation involving changes to the visual stimulus (e.g. stimulus contrast or surround suppression; (1, 5–12), modulation originating from the earliest stages of visual processing in the retina (e.g. adaptation; (1, 13–16), and modulation originating from cognitive processes internal to the nervous system (e.g. attention, task switching, learning, task difficulty, or multisensory integration (17–28).

The existence of normalization in multiple species, brain areas, and functional processes led to the appealing hypothesis that these processes share a common underlying mechanism (1). However, the normalization equation is not a mechanistic model, and the divisive scaling of trial-averaged responses is consistent with many models.

In contrast, neuronal population responses can be used to constrain models. We showed recently that measuring how trial-to-trial response variability is shared across a neuronal population and how that covariability depends on sensory or cognitive processes provides strong constraints on a model of visual cortex. We and others have shown that covariability of firing rates in visual cortex is typically low rank (2–4, 29–35). This means that shared variability is well-described as a low-dimensional process that affects neurons with different weights rather than higher order interactions between neurons or subpopulations. Furthermore, we showed that attention has an even lower rank effect on covariability (approximately rank one), as evidenced by the observation that the relationship between noise and signal correlation is largely unchanged by attention (36) and by the results of a variety of methods for directly measuring the rank attention-related modulation of shared variability (2–4).

Unlike in the data, many typical models of cortical circuits (including balanced excitatory-inhibitory networks with fast inhibition or with slow inhibition with broad connectivity) produce high rank variability (2, 37, 38). We and our collaborators showed recently that requiring the models to have realistic timescales and connectivity and constraining parameters by oberved effects of attention on covariability places strong constraints on the underlying mechanisms (2, 39).

We therefore hypothesized that measuring how different normalization-associated processes affect population covariability may reveal whether they could plausibly be mediated by the same mechanism. We designed our experiment to simultaneously record the effects of multiple normalization-associated processes on the same neuronal population and also to evaluate the generality of our findings by recording from multiple brain areas using different behavioral tasks. We therefore have two data sets. Our first data set consists of simultaneously recorded effects of contrast, adaptation, and spatial attention on the responses of small populations of neurons in visual area V4. We chose those three processes for three reasons. First, their responses on the trial-averaged responses of V4 neurons are well-described by divisive normalization (1). Second, they are all known to affect the extent to which trial-to-trial response variability is shared between pairs of visual neurons (36, 40–44), which makes it possible to compare their effects on the dimensionality of correlated variability. Third, and most importantly, these three modulatory processes represent a strong test of the hypothesis that all processes involving normalization involve a common mechanism because they originate at different stages of visual processing (contrast is a change in the visual stimulus and affects neuronal responses at all processing stages; adaptation affects responses beginning in the retina, and endogenous attention more strongly affects later stages of visual processing; Figure 1A). We found that although the way each of contrast, adaptation, and attention modulate a given neuron’s mean response was uncorrelated with modulation by other factors, all three of these processes affect covariability in a low rank way.

Figure 1
Figure 1

Methods. A. Layout of possible target locations in the cued bar detection task and schematic of the detection task. Possible locations are marked with red Xs in top panel. The animal maintained fixation while static Gabor stimuli flashed on and off in various configurations. The animal was rewarded for directing a saccade to the target stimulus (red bar) within 450ms of its appearance. B) Estimates of receptive field centers from an example V4 recording session (black circles) during the bar detection task. An estimate of the size of one example unit’s receptive field is drawn in gray. Possible target locations are depicted by red Xs. C) Schematic of the task-switching task. two subsequent briefly displayed moving Gabors differ both in their spatial locations and spatial frequencies, only one of which is behaviorally relevant in each trial. The monkey is rewarded, in different trial blocks, to discriminate the change in the relevant feature while ignoring the change in the irrelevant feature. D) Estimates of receptive field centers from an example V1 recording session (black circles) during the task-switching paradigm. An estimate of the size of one example unit’s receptive field is shown by a gray ellipse. The stimulus size and range of stimulus locations are shown in red.

Our second data set shows that these low rank effects were not limited to area V4 or to processes that have homogeneous effects on large populations: we also found that even when different visual features of a stimulus are encoded by the same group of primary visual cortical (V1) neurons, changing their behavioral relevance produces low rank effects on neuronal response variability. Together, these data are consistent with the idea that despite the differences between contrast, adaptation, attention, and task switching, they affect the responses of populations of neurons in primate visual cortex in similar ways. More broadly, they suggest that simultaneous recordings from groups of neurons will be key for understanding the biological bases of a large range of neuronal computations.

Results

Simultaneous psychophysical and neurophysiological measurements of contrast, adaptation, and attention

To simultaneously measure the effects of contrast, adaptation, and attention on neuronal populations, we trained two monkeys (Macaca mulatta) to perform the cued detection task illustrated in Figure 1. A trial began when the animal fixated a central spot. While the animal waited to detect the onset of a target (see Methods), we presented a series of pairs of static gratings across a range of orientations (200 ms duration per stimulus, one stimulus per hemifield; Figure 1A). The animal was rewarded for making a saccade to a small red bar that could appear at one of 9 possible locations in each hemifield within 450 ms of its onset or for maintaining fixation if no bar was presented after 8000 ms. The gratings varied in orientation and contrast. The animal was cued in blocks of trials using unanalyzed instruction trials as to which hemifield the bar was likely to appear. The attention cue accurately predicted the side that the bar would appear on subsequent trials 85% of the time.

The animals’ task performance shows that they respected the attention cue. The animals correctly detected a greater proportion of target bar stimuli when they were presented at one of the nine locations in the cued (attended) hemifield than one of the nine locations in the uncued hemifield. Overall, the animals detected 84% of target bars in the cued hemifield and 78% in the uncued hemifield (t-test, p<0.05).

While the monkeys performed the detection task, we measured the effects of contrast, adaptation, and attention on neuronal populations in visual area V4 using chronically implanted microelectrode arrays (see Methods; Figure 1B). We recorded single and multiunit activity during daily experimental sessions for several weeks in each animal while the animals performed the detection task. The most important aspect of our design was to measure contrast, adaptation, and attention simultaneously by sorting the same data in different ways. We measured contrast by comparing responses to stimuli with high and low contrast, adaptation by comparing responses to the first and second presentation of a given orientation, and attention by comparing responses when attention was directed toward or away from the grating in the same hemifield as the units’ receptive fields.

Task switching: a framework for generalizing our results to different brain areas and tasks

While contrast, adaptation, and adaptation are maximally different in terms of the stage of visual processing in which they originate, they have something important in common in the context of our experiment. All three processes involve a nonspecific drive to the populations of neurons we recorded. We reasoned that if we were ever going to see higher rank changes in population response variability, it might be in a situation in which the modulatory process had qualitatively different effects on different subsets of neurons.

To test the generality of our results, we recorded the responses of neurons in a different visual area (primary visual cortex, or V1) while two different monkeys performed a two-interval, forced choice task in which they had to switch which of two features (the spatial location or the spatial frequency of the Gabor patch, both of which are encoded in V1) they discriminated. In alternating blocks of trials, they indicated whether the spatial frequency of the Gabor stimuli increased or decreased or whether the location of the stimuli moved to the left or right (Figure 1C and 1D). The change amounts were chosen so that the difficulties of the two tasks would be comparable (monkey 3 average performance: 75% for spatial location task, 69% for spatial frequency task; monkey 4 average performance: 79% for spatial location task, 80% for spatial frequency task; no significant pairwise performance differences for the two tasks across sessions: p=0.47 for monkey 3, p=0.37 for monkey 4, Wilcoxon signed rank test). The neurons we recorded from encode information about both of the two features, presumably in separable encoding dimensions. Therefore, by comparing the covariability in trial blocks where different encoding dimensions are behaviorally relevant, we can test if higher rank changes are necessary for more complicated modulations.

Contrast, adaptation, and attention have diverse and largely separable effects on individual units and pairs of units

Consistent with previous results, we found that contrast (8, 10, 45, 46), adaptation (13, 15, 47), and spatial attention (48–50) were all associated with changes in the mean firing rates of the V4 units we recorded from. On average, contrast and attention increased mean rates (Figure 2A; mean physiologists’ index comparing high and low contrast = 0.17 and mean index comparing attention toward and away from the hemifield containing the unit’s receptive field for attention = 0.01, two-tailed Wilcoxon signed rank test, p= effectively 0 and p=2.3×10−12, respectively), and adaptation decreased mean rates (mean index comparing the first and second presentation of the same orientation = 0.01, two-tailed Wilcoxon signed rank test, p=3.3×10−11).

Figure 2
Figure 2

Contrast, adaptation and attention affect firing rates in a largely separable manner. A) physiologist indices (difference divided by the sum of responses in the two conditions) for each unit for contrast, adaptation, and attention. Distribution means indicated by vertical line. 5,328 units from 10 sessions. B) The effects of contrast, adaptation and attention on individual units are weakly related.

Our data suggest that contrast, adaptation, and attention affect the firing rates of individual units in a largely separable way (17, 51–59). The extent to which each unit’s mean rate was modulated by one of the three processes was weakly, but significantly correlated with modulation by the other processes (Figure 2B; Pearson’s correlation coefficients between contrast and adaptation indices = 0.13, between contrast and attention indices = −0.1, and between adaptation and attention = −0.12, p=7.2×10−20, p=4.4×10−12 and p=9.2×10−19, respectively). These results suggest that contrast, adaptation, and attention are associated with robust changes to mean rates, but do not provide strong evidence that these changes equally target the same subsets of neurons.

Previous studies have demonstrated that a variety of processes modulate the strength of covariance or pairwise correlations (often termed rSC; (60) in sensory areas. These include anesthesia (34, 61, 62), attention (36, 44, 63), arousal, alertness or task difficulty (64–66), and locomotion (67). Consistent with these reports, we found that contrast, adaptation, and attention were associated with changes in covariability (36, 40–44); Figure 3A, changes in covariability associated with all three modulatory processes were significantly different from 0; Wilcoxon signed rank test, p<0.01).

Figure 3
Figure 3

Contrast, adaptation and attention affect correlated variability between pairs of units. A. Histograms of covariance changes for contrast, adaptation, and attention. Distribution means indicated by vertical line. 20,774 pairs from 10 sessions. B) Covariance changes associated with contrast, adaptation and attention on individual units are weakly related.

On average, contrast and adaptation increased covariance (Figure 3A; mean physiologists’ index comparing high and low contrast = 2.43 and mean index comparing the first and second presentation of the same orientation = 0.19, two-tailed Wilcoxon signed rank test p=0 and p=5.9×10−66, respectively), and attention decreased covariance (mean index comparing attention toward and away from the hemifield containing the unit’s receptive field for attention = −0.30 which is significantly less than 0, two-tailed Wilcoxon signed rank test p=1.4×10−163). The effects of attention, adaptation, and contrast on covariance were not strongly interrelated (Figure 3C; the Pearson’s correlation between each unit’s mean change in covariance with all simultaneously recorded units = −0.07 between adaptation and attention, 0.001 between contrast and attention, and 0.22 between contrast and adaptation, two-sided t-test, p=1.3×10−13, p=0.29, and p=3.9×10−128, respectively).

Contrast, adaptation, and attention are all associated with low rank modulation of response covariability

We reasoned that if contrast, adaptation, and attention are associated with the same computation, they might all affect covariability in similarly low rank ways and along similar dimensions of neuronal population activity. We used factor analysis on the z-scored responses to each stimulus to evaluate the rank of the changes in response variability associated with each modulatory process. The majority of the population variance is contained in the first few modes (the majority of the variance is concentrated in the first eigenmode; Figure 4A). As in previous studies (2–4), we found that attention primarily affects variability in the first eigenmode (Figure 4A, compare black and red lines). Consistent with the idea that modulatory processes affect the same small number of dimensions, we also found that contrast and adaptation affected variability predominantly in this first mode (Figure 4A, compare black and blue lines and black and green lines, respectively).

Figure 4
Figure 4

Contrast, adaptation and attention affect population responses in a small number of dimensions. A) eigenvalues (shared variance) of the population covariance matrix corresponding to the first five modes calculated using factor analysis (33, 68). B) Changes in average covariance associated with contrast, adaptation and attention in V4 or task switching in V1 between each unit’s raw (left) or residual (first eigenmode removed) responses and all other simultaneously recorded units. Positive numbers mean that covariance was higher for high contrast, the first stimulus, the attended stimulus, or the location discrimination task, respectively. C) Proportion change in covariance in the first eigenmode as a function of the rank of the covariance change in a simulation. We constructed simulated data sets using the mean number of units and trials as our real data sets. We constructed changes in covariance of different ranks using a procedure described in Methods. We then analyzed the simulated data the same way as the real data in Figure 4B and plotted 1-the ratio of the covariance change in the residual and raw data. The mean values for each of the data sets in Figure 4B and for the V1 data are plotted as horizontal lines in the corresponding color.

These changes in covariability associated with contrast, adaptation, and attention can be completely explained by changes in a single dimension of population response space. The changes in pairwise covariance associated with each process are essentially abolished when the first eigenmode is removed (2); Figure 4B, mean proportion of total change in covariance for V4 = 0.84 (attention), 0.87 (adaptation), and 0.92 (contrast)). The magnitude of this change is consistent with a change in a single dimension, given the size of our data set (Figure 4C). In principle, if we recorded from much larger populations, we might find modulations that span more than a single dimensions. However, these analyses show that while contrast, adaptation, and attention are associated with diverse (and different signed) modulations of mean responses and pairwise covariability in visual cortex, they all modulate responses in the same, small number of dimensions. These results are therefore consistent with the hypothesis that all processes associated with normalization affect populations of V4 neurons via similar mechanisms.

Low rank modulation of response variability is not limited to homogeneous processes

One possibility is that the modulation we observed is low rank because attention, adaptation, and contrast have relatively homogeneous effects on the groups of neurons we recorded. For example, contrast typically increases the responses of V4 neurons, making it possible that contrast has a low rank, monolithic effect on population responses. A related possibility is that trial-to-trial variability in these processes (such as, for example, the animal’s internal attention state) is the source of this low rank variability (4, 69). The different sign relationships between the strength of the low rank modulation and performance (e.g. good performance is associated with low variability for attention but high variability for adaptation and contrast) make it unlikely that the explanation is that simple, but measuring trial-to-trial variability in internal states is notoriously difficult.

We conducted a strong test of the hypothesis that even complex cognitive processes are associated with low rank modulation by measuring modulation of visual cortical activity associated with switching between two tasks that are mediated by the same population of neurons (Figure 1C). Switching between spatial frequency and location discrimination tasks caused both increases and decreases in firing rates (54.2% of units had higher mean rates in the spatial frequency than spatial location task) and pairwise covariance (57.0% of units had higher mean rSC in the spatial frequency than spatial location task).

We found that task switching affected the covariability of groups of V1 neurons in a low rank manner that was very analogous to the effects of attention, adaptation, and contrast on groups of V4 neurons (Figure 4B). Like in V4, the covariance change was almost exclusively oriented along the primary axis (mean proportion of total change in covariance for V1 (task switching) = 0.92). These results suggest that the low rank modulation of population covariability we observed in V4 is not limited to extrastriate cortex or to processes with relatively homogeneous effects on neuronal populations.

Discussion

Constraints on mechanistic models

We showed that although attention, adaptation, contrast, and task switching have quantitatively and qualitatively different effects on the responses of visual cortical neurons, they all affect shared response variability in a low rank way. This observation is important because it places strong constraints on models of how modulatory processes affect cortical circuits.

We and our collaborators showed (2) that although many models produce variability whose magnitude matches observed pairwise noise correlations, the only model that produces low rank fluctuations is one in which inhibition is slower than excitation (which is physiologically realistic; 70, 71–73) and in which the connectivity of inhibitory neurons is spatially restricted (which is also realistic; 74, 75, 76). In that model, attention (and presumably contrast and adaptation, although these were not modeled explicitly) could exert low rank changes in shared variability through an input whose effect is to change the balance between excitation and inhibition, increasing the activity or influence of inhibitory neurons relative to excitatory ones (2). This simple mechanism is a good candidate for a general mechanism mediating a broad class of normalization computations in primate visual cortex.

The idea that all normalization processes utilize the same mechanism appears to be contradicted by two recent results showing that in mouse visual cortex, normalization primarily involves changes in excitation (77), but in the Drosophila antenna lobe, normalization is mediated through changes in inhibition (78). Our model leaves room for both of these possibilities: normalization is accomplished by shifting the E/I balance, which could involve changes to excitation, inhibition, or both (2, 39). One possibility is that both systems use the same broad mechanism (changing E/I balance) but employ different means to change that balance. Another possibility is that each circuit (e.g. primate V1 or V4) uses the same mechanism for all forms of normalization, but that different systems use different mechanisms.

A recent set of studies suggested a mechanism in which each neuron has a set of inputs that perform normalization and that attention and other modulatory processes act through those inputs (20–24, 79, 80). This idea is supported by the observation that the extent to which the mean responses of individual neurons in visual cortex are modulated by switching attention between two stimuli within their receptive fields is highly correlated with the magnitude of response suppression associated with placing an additional stimulus in the receptive field (20–22, 24, 79). However, this strong correlation does not seem to apply to all modulatory processes: those same authors showed that modulation by feature attention is not correlated with multi-stimulus suppression (27), and we showed that modulation by contrast, adaptation, and attention are uncorrelated.

Together, these observations suggest that while all forms of normalization may involve the same or similar circuit mechanisms, the involvement of particular neurons likely depends on the specific modulatory process or circuit. In some form, the idea that the involvement of specific neurons depends on the specific context is necessary to explain the observations that the extent of modulation by, for example, feature attention, depends on how closely a neurons’ tuning matches the attended stimulus(81–85).

Implications for information coding

A curious consequence of the observation that modulatory processes affect response variability in a low rank way is that those modulations should have little to no effect on the stimulus information that could be read out of a neuronal population by an optimal decoder. An elegant series of theoretical studies showed that shared variability affects the Fisher information encoded in a neuronal population only when it is aligned with the dimensions in population space that are being read out, and that in large populations, the amount of shared variability that is aligned with those dimensions is vanishingly small (86–88). If contrast, adaptation, and attention affect only a small number of dimensions in population space, their effects could easily be discounted by an optimal decoder.

Why then are attention, adaptation, contrast, and task switching associated with such large changes in visual perception? Our results are consistent with only two possibilities: 1) that the modulations in visual cortex associated with these processes do not affect perception, or 2) that readout is suboptimal in a particular way, such that the first mode (which is associated with the changes in shared variability) plays a larger role than it would in an optimal readout scheme. While the first possibility has been proposed for attention (in favor of an alternative model in which attention is mediated through changes in the visual information that is communicated to downstream areas involved in decision-making; (89–92), it seems implausible for a low level process like contrast. Contrast is associated with changes from the earliest stages of visual processing, which are then communicated to visual cortex. The idea that contrast-related changes in visual cortex are not associated with the concomitant changes in perception seems implausible.

On its surface, the second possibility, that visual information is read out suboptimally such that low rank changes in variability affect perception, seems equally implausible. Any readout mechanism approaching optimality should have access to a much higher dimensional representation of visual information, which would minimize the impact of low rank changes in response variability. However, we showed recently that in an orientation change detection task, monkeys’ choices were much more closely aligned with the axes in V4 population space that correspond to shared variability than would be expected if decoding approached optimality (93). One possibility is that, either because of a biological constraint or a need to optimize something other than performance on a specific task (89), responses oriented along the same dimensions that affect modulatory processes carry an outsized influence on perception. Determining the validity of these two possibilities will be an important avenue for further work.

Methods

Subjects and recording methods

The subjects in our V4 experiments were two adult male rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta, 11 and 9 kilograms). The subjects in our V1 experiments were two different adult male rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta, 10 and 12 kilograms). All animal procedures were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Before training, we implanted each animal with a titanium head post. Monkey 1 from the V4 experiment had previously been trained to perform a direction change detection task (93) and had a 10×10 microelectrode array (Blackrock Microsystems) implanted in area V4 in one cerebral hemisphere 4 months prior to the start of training for the current study. After completion of the previous study, the monkey was retrained for 4 weeks to perform the bar detection task. Monkey 2 for the V4 experiment was trained for 4 months to perform the bar detection task before we implanted a 10×10 microelectrode array and began recordings. Both V1 monkeys were trained to perform the two discrimination tasks (Figure 1C) before we implanted a 6×8 array in area V1. In all cases, the distance between adjacent electrodes was 400 μm, and each electrode was 1 mm long. We identified areas V1 or V4 using stereotactic coordinates and by visually inspection of sulcal landmarks. Each array was connected to a percutaneous connector that allowed electrophysiological recordings.

To simultaneously measure the effects of contrast, adaptation, and attention on neuronal populations, two monkeys performed the detection task illustrated in Figure 1A. A trial began when the animal fixated a central spot. The animal maintained fixation while waiting to detect the onset of a small red bar (100 ms stimulus presentation, the bar was .2° thick and ranged from .25° to .5° long, with pixel intensities selected at the start of each session to make the task sufficiently difficult) presented after a delay period picked from an exponential distribution (minimum time before target onset was 300 ms, tau ranged from 3800 - 4500 ms between sessions, max trial time was 8000 ms). While waiting for the target, a series of pairs of static gratings (200 ms duration, 100 ms interflash interval) were presented at different orientations; one in the joint receptive field of the recorded neurons and the other in the opposite hemifield. We manipulated contrast by changing the contrast of the gratings (we used full contrast and low contrast stimuli which ranged between 5% and 20% across sessions), adaptation by comparing gratings that were presented following a grating of the same or different orientation, and attention by cueing the animal in blocks of trials as to which hemifield to expect the red target bar to appear (the cue was valid on 85% of trials). The animal was rewarded for making a saccade to the red bar within 450 ms of its onset or for maintaining fixation if no bar was presented after 8000 ms.

To measure the effects of task switching on populations of V1 neurons, we trained two additional monkeys to perform the discrimination tasks illustrated in Figure 1C. The animals maintained fixation on a central spot when two subsequent moving Gabor patches with randomly drawn spatial locations and spatial frequencies were displayed for 200ms each, separated by a variable delay (100~150ms for monkey 3, 300~500ms for monkey 4). Trials were grouped in alternating blocks of two behavioral contexts (each block contains 225 trials for monkey 3, and 40 trials on average for monkey 4). In the spatial location context, the monkeys discriminated the difference in the two stimuli’s locations (left or right shift), while disregarding their spatial frequencies; likewise in the spatial frequency context, the monkeys discriminated the difference in the two stimuli’s spatial frequencies (increase or decrease), while disregarding their spatial locations. The monkeys were trained to make a saccade to corresponding saccade targets to report their discrimination decision.

We presented visual stimuli on a calibrated CRT monitor (calibrated to linearize intensity, 1,024 × 768 pixels, 120-Hz refresh rate) placed 57 cm from the animal. We monitored eye position using an infrared eye tracker (Eyelink 1000, SR Research). We used custom software (written in Matlab using the Psychophysics Toolbox, ref) to present stimuli and monitor behavior. We recorded eye position and pupil diameter (1,000 samples per s), neuronal responses (30,000 samples per s) and the signal from a photodiode to align neuronal responses to stimulus presentation times (10,000 samples per s) using hardware from Ripple.

To measure the effects of modulatory processes on neuronal populations, we recorded single and multiunit activity from Utah arrays during daily experimental sessions for several weeks in each animal (V4 experiments: 7 sessions in Monkey 1 and 11 sessions in Monkey 2; V1 experiments: 21 sessions in Monkey 3 and 24 sessions in Monkey 4). Using our recording methods, it is nearly impossible to tell whether we recorded from the same single- or multi-unit clusters on subsequent days and with the exception of summary figures 2 and 3, our analyses focus on within session questions. We spike sorted single units and multi-unit clusters manually following the experiment using Plexon's Offline Sorter and we combined single and multiunits for all analyses (we use the term “units” to refer to either). For the recordings in V4, we positioned the gratings and possible target bar locations such that they fell in the joint receptive fields of most units (Figure 1B). We included V4 experimental sessions for neuronal analysis if we recorded from a minimum of ten units simultaneously whose average visual responses to the first stimulus shown (which was not used for any subsequent analyses) on all completed high contrast trials was at least 25% more than baseline and also at least 5 spikes per second greater than baseline (7 sessions from Monkey 1 and 2 sessions from Monkey 2; average of 63 responsive units per session and 29 stimulus repetitions of each orientation and condition).

For the analysis of the V4 data, we counted spikes in response to visual stimuli in 200ms bin shifted 50ms to account for the visual latencies of V4. Our analyses included all responses after the initial stimulus presentation (to remove contrast adaptation; 36) from all trials and were not baseline subtracted. We included responses from all completed trials up until 250ms before a behavioral event (i.e., the target onset or a fixation break). For each unit (for measures of individual unit rates) or pair of units recorded simultaneously but not from the same electrode (for covariance), we computed physiologists’ indices (defined as the difference between responses in two conditions divided by their sum), covariance, or rSC separately for each unique combination of grating orientation, contrast, adaptation, and attention condition and averaged the results as described in the figure legends. For the indices in Figure 2A, we compared activity using the responses from the attend out, low contrast, adapted condition as the comparison point against the responses in the condition where one of those features was changed, for contrast, adaptation and attention, respectively. For the scatter plots in Figure 2B, average indices for each unit were calculated for all pairs of stimulus conditions and then collapsed across conditions. Covariances in Figure 3 were calculated with a similar principle as in Figures 2A and average covariance changes for each pair of units were calculated within all pairs of stimulus conditions (as in Figure 3A) and then collapsed across conditions.

For recordings in V1, the positions of the stimuli are chosen so that they overlap with most of the receptive fields of V1 neurons (Figure 1D). We included V1 experimental sessions for neuronal analyses if there are at least 50 trials with identical initial stimuli (same location and spatial frequency) for each condition. All V1 units were included in the analyses as long as their stimulus responses were significantly different from baseline activity. (13 sessions from Monkey 3 and 20 sessions from Monkey 4; average of 53 responsive units per session and 153 repetitions of identical initial stimuli for each condition per session. We included all completed trials (where monkeys successfully maintained fixation until they made a saccade and indicated their choice). We analyzed the response to the first stimulus display only (i.e. the number of spikes within the 200ms of stimulus time window shifted 34 ms for the visual latencies of V1 (94).

Population analyses

We used factor analysis to identify the dimensions in population space that account for the most shared variance in the population. For the V4 data, we began by z-scoring the spike count responses of each neuron to gratings of each orientation in each contrast, adaptation, and attention condition. For the V1 data, we z-scored the responses to the each unique stimulus, using responses to the first stimulus on each trial (to avoid adaptation effects). We then combined the data across all conditions to form a number of neurons x number of trials z-scored response matrix which we call X. We used Factor analysis (68, 95) to identify the five dimensions in population space that accounted for the greatest variability in population responses. Because we z-scored the responses, these dimensions represent the dimensions of greatest covariability in the population. We computed the residual covariance (Figures 4B) after subtracting the first mode as Cov(X,X)-L1xL1’ as in (2), where X is the population response matrix, Cov(X,X) is the raw covariance matrix, and L1 is the loading matrix when fitting with a single factor. We repeated this analysis on multivariate Gaussian distributions with mean covariance equal to the means for the two contrast conditions, which was the manipulation associated with the largest covariance change in our study (Figure 4C).

We conducted simulations to evaluate the proportion of the covariance change in the first dimension that would be measured in our data sets with n units if the true covariance change was of rank k. We constructed a covariance matrix S=W*W’+D, where W is a random matrix of size k×n and D is a random diagonal matrix with positive elements. We then drew the responses of each simulated neuron on each trial from a multivariate Gaussian distribution with covariance S and analyzed the results as we did our real data.

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Douglas A. Ruff, Cheng Xue, Lily E. Kramer, Faisal Baqai, Marlene R. Cohen
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