Estimating Neuronal Information: Logarithmic Binning of Neuronal Inter-Spike Intervals

Entropy

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 485-501

  Dorval, Alan D ^a  

^a The Brain Institute at the University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Inter spike interval; Logarithmic probability density; Neural information; Neuron; Spike pattern entropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864942562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e13020485     Document Type: Article

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