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15 - General Engineering
Imperial College London
The Ising decoder: reading out the activity of large neural ensembles.
This paper describes the first use of the Ising model from condensed matter physics to decode the activity of populations of neurons. Recognizing that “mean field” approximations of the Ising model could be used for decoding brain activity, we were able to decode much larger patterns of neural activity than previously possible. The paper led to plenary lectures at the 2012 UK Neuroinformatics Node Conference and the Royal Academy of Engineering Young Researcher Futures Meeting on Neural Engineering (Warwick, July 2012), and membership of the programme committee of the annual OCNS Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Neuroscience.