Complexity and diversity in sparse code priors improve receptive field characterization of Macaque V1 neurons

• Ziniu Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ziniu Wu, Harold Rockwell

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliations Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Harold Rockwell ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ziniu Wu, Harold Rockwell

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Committee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  Affiliations Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Yimeng Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliations Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2248-8951

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• Shiming Tang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0294-3259

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• Tai Sing Lee

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: taislee@andrew.cmu.edu

  Affiliations Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4483-5694

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