Generating spike trains with specified correlation coefficients

Neural Computation

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 397-423

  Macke, Jakob H ^a   Berens, Philipp ^a,b   Ecker, Alexander S ^a,b   Tolias, Andreas S ^b   Bethge, Matthias ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ENTROPY; LETTER; MACACA MULATTA; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 65649112731     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.2008.02-08-713     Document Type: Letter

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