Incorporating Naturalistic Correlation Structure Improves Spectrogram Reconstruction from Neuronal Activity in the Songbird Auditory Midbrain

This work was supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate research fellowship (A.D.R.), a McKnight scholar award (L.P.), an NSF CAREER award (L.P.), the NSF, the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, and Searle Scholars Fund (S.M.N.W.), a Gatsby Initiative in Brain Circuitry pilot grant (L.P., S.M.N.W.), and the Robert Leet and Clara Guthrie Patterson Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship (Bank of America, Trustee) (Y.A.).We thank Ana Calabrese and Stephen David for helpful comments and discussions, and Columbia University Information Technology and the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research for providing the computing cluster used in this study.