Measurement of variability dynamics in cortical spike trains

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 374-390

  Nawrot, Martin P ^a   Boucsein, Clemens ^a   Rodriguez Molina, Victor ^a   Riehle, Alexa ^b   Aertsen, Ad ^a   Rotter, Stefan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c Theory and Data Analysis   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coefficient of variation; Cortical variability; Fano factor; Gamma process; Monkey motor cortex; Noise current injection; Renewal process, Spiking irregularity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MONKEY; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECORDING; SPIKE WAVE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HAPLORHINI; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 41049102357     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.10.013     Document Type: Article

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