Quantification and classification of neuronal responses in kernel-smoothed peristimulus time histograms

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1260-1274

  Hill, Michael R H ^a   Fried, Itzhak ^b   Koch, Christof ^a,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potentials; Firing rate; Human data; Kernel convolution; Peristimulus time histogram; Signal detection; Spike trains

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; HISTOGRAM; KERNEL METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ACTION POTENTIAL; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; NEURONS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84923197676     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00595.2014     Document Type: Article

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