Improved Estimation and Interpretation of Correlations in Neural Circuits

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Yatsenko, Dimitri ^a   Josić, Krešimir ^b   Ecker, Alexander S ^a,c,d,e   Froudarakis, Emmanouil ^a   Cotton, R James ^a   Tolias, Andreas S ^a,f  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^f Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; GRAPH THEORY; NEURONS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

CORRELATION MATRIX; CORTICAL NEURONS; EFFICIENT ESTIMATOR; IN-VIVO; NEURAL ACTIVITY; NEURAL CIRCUITS; NEURAL CORRELATIONS; NEURONAL POPULATIONS; RANDOM ACCESS; REGULARISATION;

ESTIMATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL INTERACTION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; COVARIANCE; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; LASER MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VALIDATION STUDY; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CALCIUM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84926385892     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004083     Document Type: Article

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