Incorporating naturalistic correlation structure improves spectrogram reconstruction from neuronal activity in the songbird auditory midbrain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3828-3842

  Ramirez, Alexandro D ^a   Ahmadian, Yashar ^a   Schumacher, Joseph ^a   Schneider, David ^a   Woolley, Sarah M N ^a   Paninski, Liam ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINCH; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINCHES; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79952394892     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3256-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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