What can spike train distances tell us about the neural code?

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 146-165

  Chicharro, Daniel ^a,b   Kreuz, Thomas ^b,c   Andrzejak, Ralph G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Mutual information; Neural coding; Precision; Spike train distances; Spike trains; Temporal coding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GUSTATORY CORTEX; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REACTION TIME; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79958170441     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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