Searching for optimal stimuli: Ascending a neuron's response function

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 449-473

  Koelling, Melinda Evrithiki ^a   Nykamp, Duane Q ^b  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Closed loop experiment; Gradient ascent; Mean firing rate maximization; Reverse correlation; Spike triggered average

Indexed keywords

CLOSED-LOOP EXPERIMENTS; GRADIENT ASCENT; MEAN FIRING RATE; MEAN FIRING RATE MAXIMIZATION; NEURON RESPONSE; NEURONAL RESPONSE; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; REVERSE CORRELATIONS; SPIKE-TRIGGERED AVERAGE; STIMULUS SPACES;

NEURONS;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CALCULATION; FIVE PAIR MODEL; LINEAR ASCENT ALGORITHM; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PAIR MODEL; SONGBIRD; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84874108909     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: 15736873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-012-0395-7     Document Type: Article

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