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Relating the diversity of firing rates to the dimension of variability in recurrent networks

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Populations of neurons produce activity with two central features. First, neuronal responses are very diverse—specific stimuli or behaviors prompt some neurons to emit many action potentials, while other neurons remain relatively silent. Second, the trial-to-trial fluctuations of neuronal response occupy a low dimensional space, owing to significant correlations between the activity of neurons. These two features define the quality of neuronal representation.  We link these two aspects of population response using a randomly coupled recurrent circuit model and derive the following relation: the more diverse the firing rates of neurons in a population, the lower the effective dimension of population trial-to-trial covariability. We tested our prediction using simultaneously recorded neuronal populations from numerous brain areas in mice, non-human primates, and in the motor cortex of human participants. Surprisingly, when populations are restricted to a single brain area our result holds, however when a population is composed from neurons spanning multiple brain areas the relation breaks down. This suggests that between brain-area coupling is more structured than the local wiring within a brain-area.  Finally, using our relation we present a theory where a more diverse neuronal code leads to better fine discrimination performance from population activity. In line with this theory, we show that neuronal populations across the brain exhibit both more diverse mean responses and lower-dimensional fluctuations when the brain is in more heightened states of information processing. In sum, we present a key organizational principle of neuronal population response that is widely observed across the nervous system and acts to synergistically improve population representation.

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