Stochasticity, spikes and decoding: Sufficiency and utility of order statistics

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 447-457

  Richmond, Barry J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRING RATES; NEURAL RESPONSE; NEURONAL CODES; NULL HYPOTHESIS; ORDER STATISTICS; RATE FUNCTIONS; SPIKE TRAIN; STOCHASTIC SAMPLING; STOCHASTICITY; TIME VARYING;

RAILROAD CARS;

LOCOMOTIVES;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67650480867     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-009-0321-x     Document Type: Article

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