Detecting pairwise correlations in spike trains: An objective comparison of methods and application to the study of retinal waves

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 43, 2014, Pages 14288-14303

  Cutts, Catherine S ^a   Eglen, X Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity; Correlations; Development; Retina; Retinotopic map; Spike times

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RETINA; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RETINA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84908072127     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2767-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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