Unbiased estimation of precise temporal correlations between spike trains

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 90-100

  Stark, Eran ^a   Abeles, Moshe ^a,b,c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Correlation analysis; Extra cellular recordings; Jittering; Neuronal interactions; Poisson distribution; Resampling methods; Spike trains; Temporal precision

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL INTERACTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROSS CORRELATION HISTOGRAM; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HISTOGRAM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE; INTERNEURON; JITTERING METHOD; MODIFIED CONVOLUTION METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NULL HYPOTHESIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRONTAL LOBE; MACACA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEURONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 61649086123     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.12.029     Document Type: Article

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