The Dynamical Regime of Sensory Cortex: Stable Dynamics around a Single Stimulus-Tuned Attractor Account for Patterns of Noise Variability

Affiliations

• ¹ Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK. Electronic address: g.hennequin@eng.cam.ac.uk.
• ² Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience, Kavli Institute for Brain Science, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA; Centre de Neurophysique, Physiologie, et Pathologie, CNRS, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France; Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Biology and Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.
• ³ Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
• ⁴ Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK; Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, 1051 Budapest, Hungary.
• ⁵ Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience, Kavli Institute for Brain Science, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.