Maximizing the entropy of histogram bar heights to explore neural activity: A simulation study on auditory and tactile fibers

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 399-407

  Güçlü, Burak ^a,b  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Institute for Sensory Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory nerve; Bin size; Maximum entropy; Peri stimulus time histogram; Rapidly adapting fiber

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN FUNCTION; COCHLEAR NERVE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENTROPY; HISTOGRAM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE FIBER; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; SIMULATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENTROPY; HEARING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; TOUCH;

EID: 31344468820     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: 00651400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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