Effects of stimulus transformations on estimates of sensory neuron selectivity

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 265-283

  Dimitrov, Alexander G ^a   Gedeon, Tomáš ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dejitter; Neural coding; Sensory systems; Stimulus transformation

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; NEURONS;

CONDITIONAL MEANS; COVARIANCE MATRICES; DEJITTER; NEURAL CODING; SENSORY NEURONS; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIMPLE++; SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION; STIMULUS TRANSFORMATION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL;

JITTER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOSTATISTICS; CODING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSECT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPIKE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 33646395688     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-006-6357-1     Document Type: Article

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