{"id":2132,"date":"2019-12-16T18:34:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T08:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2019-12-16T18:34:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T08:34:31","slug":"how-to-conduct-a-quantitative-comparison-of-machine-learning-and-statistical-model-based-decoding-methods-on-hd-cell-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2132","title":{"rendered":"How to conduct a quantitative comparison of machine learning and statistical model-based decoding methods on HD cell activity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xu Z, Wu W, Winter SS, Mehlman ML, Butler WN, Simmons CM, Harvey RE, Berkowitz LE, Chen Y, Taube JS, Wilber AA and Clark BJ (2019) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fncir.2019.00075\/full\"><strong>A Comparison of Neural Decoding Methods and Population Coding Across Thalamo-Cortical Head Direction Cells<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<i>Front. Neural Circuits<\/i>\u00a013:75. doi: 10.3389\/fncir.2019.00075<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Head direction (HD) cells, which fire action potentials whenever an animal points its head in a particular direction, are thought to subserve the animal\u2019s sense of spatial orientation. HD cells are found prominently in several thalamo-cortical regions including anterior thalamic nuclei, postsubiculum, medial entorhinal cortex, parasubiculum, and the parietal cortex. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">While a number of methods in neural decoding have been developed to assess the dynamics of spatial signals within thalamo-cortical regions, studies conducting a quantitative comparison of machine learning and statistical model-based decoding methods on HD cell activity are currently lacking<\/span><\/strong>. Here, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">we compare statistical model-based and machine learning approaches by assessing decoding accuracy and evaluate variables that contribute to population coding across thalamo-cortical HD cells<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xu Z, Wu W, Winter SS, Mehlman ML, Butler WN, Simmons CM, Harvey RE, Berkowitz LE, Chen Y, Taube JS, Wilber AA and Clark BJ (2019) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fncir.2019.00075\/full\"><strong>A Comparison of Neural Decoding Methods and Population Coding Across Thalamo-Cortical Head Direction Cells<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<i>Front. Neural Circuits<\/i>\u00a013:75. doi: 10.3389\/fncir.2019.00075<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xu Z, Wu W, Winter SS, Mehlman ML, Butler WN, Simmons CM, Harvey RE, Berkowitz LE, Chen Y, Taube JS, Wilber AA and Clark BJ (2019) A Comparison of Neural Decoding Methods and Population Coding Across Thalamo-Cortical Head Direction Cells.\u00a0Front. Neural Circuits\u00a013:75. doi: 10.3389\/fncir.2019.00075 Abstract &#8220;Head direction (HD) cells, which fire action potentials whenever an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,346],"tags":[620,396,621,235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2133,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions\/2133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}