Coefficient of variation vs. mean interspike interval curves: What do they tell use about the brain?

Neurocomputing

Volumn 38-40, Issue , 2001, Pages 1141-1149

  Christodoulou, Chris ^a,c   Bugmann, Guido ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coefficient of variation (CV); High firing variability; Mean interspike interval (ISI); Partial reset; Poisson process

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CORRELATION METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

NETWORK DYNAMICS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOMATIC CELL; SPIKE WAVE; STANDARD;

EID: 0035384071     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(01)00480-5     Document Type: Article

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