--- _id: '2850' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Recent work emphasizes that the maximum entropy principle provides a bridge between statistical mechanics models for collective behavior in neural networks and experiments on networks of real neurons. Most of this work has focused on capturing the measured correlations among pairs of neurons. Here we suggest an alternative, constructing models that are consistent with the distribution of global network activity, i.e. the probability that K out of N cells in the network generate action potentials in the same small time bin. The inverse problem that we need to solve in constructing the model is analytically tractable, and provides a natural 'thermodynamics' for the network in the limit of large N. We analyze the responses of neurons in a small patch of the retina to naturalistic stimuli, and find that the implied thermodynamics is very close to an unusual critical point, in which the entropy (in proper units) is exactly equal to the energy. © 2013 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA Medialab srl.\r\n" acknowledgement: "his work was supported in part by NSF Grants IIS-0613435 and PHY-0957573, by NIH Grants R01 EY14196 and P50 GM071508, by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, by the Human Frontiers Science Program, by the Swartz Foundation, and by the WM Keck Foundation.\r\n" article_number: P03011 article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Gasper full_name: Tkacik, Gasper id: 3D494DCA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkacik orcid: 0000-0002-6699-1455 - first_name: Olivier full_name: Marre, Olivier last_name: Marre - first_name: Thierry full_name: Mora, Thierry last_name: Mora - first_name: Dario full_name: Amodei, Dario last_name: Amodei - first_name: Michael full_name: Berry, Michael last_name: Berry - first_name: William full_name: Bialek, William last_name: Bialek citation: ama: Tkačik G, Marre O, Mora T, Amodei D, Berry M, Bialek W. The simplest maximum entropy model for collective behavior in a neural network. Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. 2013;2013(3). doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2013/03/P03011 apa: Tkačik, G., Marre, O., Mora, T., Amodei, D., Berry, M., & Bialek, W. (2013). The simplest maximum entropy model for collective behavior in a neural network. Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. IOP Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2013/03/P03011 chicago: Tkačik, Gašper, Olivier Marre, Thierry Mora, Dario Amodei, Michael Berry, and William Bialek. “The Simplest Maximum Entropy Model for Collective Behavior in a Neural Network.” Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. IOP Publishing Ltd., 2013. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2013/03/P03011. ieee: G. Tkačik, O. Marre, T. Mora, D. Amodei, M. Berry, and W. Bialek, “The simplest maximum entropy model for collective behavior in a neural network,” Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment, vol. 2013, no. 3. IOP Publishing Ltd., 2013. ista: Tkačik G, Marre O, Mora T, Amodei D, Berry M, Bialek W. 2013. The simplest maximum entropy model for collective behavior in a neural network. Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. 2013(3), P03011. mla: Tkačik, Gašper, et al. “The Simplest Maximum Entropy Model for Collective Behavior in a Neural Network.” Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment, vol. 2013, no. 3, P03011, IOP Publishing Ltd., 2013, doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2013/03/P03011. short: G. Tkačik, O. Marre, T. Mora, D. Amodei, M. Berry, W. Bialek, Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment 2013 (2013). date_created: 2018-12-11T11:59:55Z date_published: 2013-03-12T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T07:00:14Z day: '12' department: - _id: GaTk doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/2013/03/P03011 external_id: arxiv: - '1207.6319' intvolume: ' 2013' issue: '3' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6319 month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint publication: Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment publication_status: published publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd. publist_id: '3942' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: The simplest maximum entropy model for collective behavior in a neural network type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 2013 year: '2013' ...