Trial-by-trial estimation of amplitude and latency variability in neuronal spike trains

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 163-170

  Bollimunta, Anil ^a   Knuth, Kevin H ^b   Ding, Mingzhou ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Latency; Spike trains; Trial by trial variability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; LATENT PERIOD; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SIMULATION; SPIKE; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33846329503     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.08.007     Document Type: Article

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