A novel test to determine the significance of neural selectivity to single and multiple potentially correlated stimulus features

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-65

  Ince, Robin A A ^a   Mazzoni, Alberto ^b   Bartels, Andreas ^a,d   Logothetis, Nikos K ^a,e   Panzeri, Stefano ^b,c,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gamma band; LFP; Mutual information; Natural movies; Neural coding; Oscillations; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INFORMATION; MUTUAL INFORMATION; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPACE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MACACA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84865761157     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.11.013     Document Type: Article

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