Information theoretic analysis of action potential trains II. Analysis of correlation among n neurons to deduce connection structure

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-45

  Yamada, Satoshi ^a   Matsumoto, Kenji ^b   Nakashima, Michio ^a   Shiono, Satoru ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Action potential train; Connection structure; Cross correlational analysis; Information theory; n Point mutual information; Neural network model; Two point m joint conditional mutual information

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030008773     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-0270(95)00152-2     Document Type: Article

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