Spatiotemporal conditional inference and hypothesis tests for neural ensemble spiking precision

Neural Computation

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 104-150

  Harrison, Matthew T ^a   Amarasingham, Asohan ^b,c   Truccolo, Wilson ^d  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84920098793     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/NECO_a_00681     Document Type: Letter

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