Syeda, …, @computingnature et al., bioRxiv (2026) find that #NeuralActivity in #mouse #VisualCortex is dominated by #orofacial movements, not eye movements. Across darkness and visual stimulation, eye movements explain only a small fraction of neural variance and are largely correlated with whisking and sniffing. Movement signals thus strongly shape #V1 activity during free viewing.
🧠 New preprint by Tilbury et al: Characterizing #NeuronalPopulation geometry with #AI equation discovery
The approach generates & evaluates 100s of candidate equations, finding "peaky" non-Gaussian tuning functions whose Fourier structure matches power-law dimensionality observed in real #V1 pops. Links shape of single- #neuron tuning to #PopulationLevel geometry using both data fits & analytical derivations.
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