2025
Neurons as Detectors of Coherent Sets in Sensory Dynamics
Joshua L. Pughe-Sanford, Xuehao Ding, Jason J Moore, Anirvan M. Sengupta, Charles Epstein, Philip Greengard +1
NeurIPS 2025poster
We model sensory streams as observations from high-dimensional stochastic dynamical systems and conceptualize sensory neurons as self-supervised learners of compact representations of such dynamics. From prior experience, neurons learn {\it coherent sets}—regions of stimulus state space whose trajec…