TopUnsupervised clustering grouped the pictures in groups similar to the ones used for decoding
Results of unsupervised clustering of the neuronal similarity matrix. We defined the neuronal similarity between two pictures i and j based on the spiking population activity as the Pearson correlation coefficient between the vectors containing responses of all neurons (n=367) to picture i and picture j. The responses consisted of the spike count in the [100;300] ms interval after stimulus onset. The dimensions of the resulting similarity matrix were 77 x 77 (symmetric matrix). We performed a k-means clustering algorithm (with 10 iterations and random initial conditions) on the neuronal similarity matrix. The rectangles delimit the pictures belonging to the same cluster. In the results illustrated here, the number of clusters was set to 8 (results for other numbers of clusters are shown on-line).
