Techniques for extracting single-trial activity patterns from large-scale neural recordings

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 609-618

  Churchland, Mark M ^a   Yu, Byron M ^a,b   Sahani, Maneesh ^b   Shenoy, Krishna V ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 37649008608     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2007.11.001     Document Type: Review

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