Related papers: A guide to time-resolved and parameter-free measur…
A wide variety of approaches to estimate the degree of synchrony between two or more spike trains have been proposed. One of the most recent methods is the ISI-distance which extracts information from the interspike intervals (ISIs) by…
Measures of spike train synchrony have become important tools in both experimental and theoretical neuroscience. Three time-resolved measures called the ISI-distance, the SPIKE-distance, and SPIKE-synchronization have already been…
Recently, the SPIKE-distance has been proposed as a parameter-free and time-scale independent measure of spike train synchrony. This measure is time-resolved since it relies on instantaneous estimates of spike train dissimilarity. However,…
Estimating the degree of synchrony or reliability between two or more spike trains is a frequent task in both experimental and computational neuroscience. In recent years, many different methods have been proposed that typically compare the…
Background: Measures of spike train synchrony are widely used in both experimental and computational neuroscience. Time-scale independent and parameter-free measures, such as the ISI-distance, the SPIKE-distance and SPIKE-synchronization,…
Measures of multiple spike train synchrony are essential in order to study issues such as spike timing reliability, network synchronization, and neuronal coding. These measures can broadly be divided in multivariate measures and averages…
Techniques for recording large-scale neuronal spiking activity are developing very fast. This leads to an increasing demand for algorithms capable of analyzing large amounts of experimental spike train data. One of the most crucial and…
By introducing the twin concepts of reliability and precision along with the corresponding measures, Mainen and Sejnowski's seminal 1995 paper "Reliability of spike timing in neocortical neurons" (Mainen and Sejnowski, 1995) paved the way…
Background: It is commonly assumed in neuronal coding that repeated presentations of a stimulus to a coding neuron elicit similar responses. One common way to assess similarity are spike train distances. These can be divided into…
As synchronized activity is associated with basic brain functions and pathological states, spike train synchrony has become an important measure to analyze experimental neuronal data. Many different measures of spike train synchrony have…
Approaches to predicting neuronal spike responses commonly use a Poisson learning objective. This objective quantizes responses into spike counts within a fixed summation interval, typically on the order of 10 to 100 milliseconds in…
Statistical similarities between neuronal spike trains could reveal significant information on complex underlying processing. In general, the similarity between synchronous spike trains is somewhat easy to identify. However, the similar…
Peaks signify important events in a signal. In a pair of signals how peaks are occurring with mutual correspondence may offer us significant insights into the mutual interdependence between the two signals based on important events. In this…
The mutual information between stimulus and spike-train response is commonly used to monitor neural coding efficiency, but neuronal computation broadly conceived requires more refined and targeted information measures of input-output joint…
Neurons in the central nervous system communicate with each other with the help of series of Action Potentials, or spike trains. Various studies have shown that neurons encode information in different features of spike trains, such as the…
We present the mathematical basis of a new approach to the analysis of temporal coding. The foundation of the approach is the construction of several families of novel distances (metrics) between neuronal impulse trains. In contrast to most…
The metrization of the space of neural responses is an ongoing research program seeking to find natural ways to describe, in geometrical terms, the sets of possible activities in the brain. One component of this program are the {\em spike…
We briefly review and highlight the consequences of rigorous and exact results obtained in \cite{cessac:10}, characterizing the statistics of spike trains in a network of leaky Integrate-and-Fire neurons, where time is discrete and where…
This article contains two main theoretical results on neural spike train models. The first assumes that the spike train is modeled as a counting or point process on the real line where the conditional intensity function is a product of a…
Neural spike trains, which are sequences of very brief jumps in voltage across the cell membrane, were one of the motivating applications for the development of point process methodology. Early work required the assumption of stationarity,…