Topic: probabilistic spike count model

Neural responses are variable: even under identical experimental conditions, single neuron and population responses typically differ from trial to trial and across time. Recent work demonstrated that this variability can be modulated by specific stimulus features, most prominently quenched by stimulus onset. However, it is unknown how ubiquitous this effect is across stimulus features, and indeed whether it exists in brain areas to which classical neural coding approaches cannot be applied due to the lack of trials with repeatable experimental stimuli. To address these questions, we develop a