Spike count reliability and the poisson hypothesis

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 801-809

  Amarasingham, Asohan ^a,c   Chen, Ting Li ^a   Geman, Stuart ^a   Harrison, Matthew T ^a   Sheinberg, David L ^b  

^a Division of Applied Mathematics   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inferotemporal cortex; Non poisson spiking; Object recognition; Poisson hypothesis test; Regularity; Spike train analysis; Spike trains; Temporal coding; Trial to trial variability; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RHESUS MONKEY; SPIKE WAVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 32544431528     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2948-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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