Spike correlations - What can they tell about synchrony?

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2011, Pages

  Tchumatchenko, Tatjana ^a,b,c   Geisel, Theo ^a,b   Volgushev, Maxim ^d,e,f   Wolf, Fred ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^b BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^c Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center 889 for Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Processing   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation coefficient; Count correlations; Spike correlations; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

CELL ACTIVITY; CELL INTERACTION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL SPIKING SYNCHRONY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PAIRWISE INPUT CORRELATION; REVIEW; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 80055068896     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00068     Document Type: Review

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