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JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 64-88Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-007-0065-3
Keywords
coordinated firing; temporal code; rate code; assembly hypothesis; synchrony; detection of joint-spike events; cat visual cortex; area 17; moving grating; non-parametric and parametric significance estimation
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We present a non-parametric and computationally efficient method named NeuroXidence that detects coordinated firing of two or more neurons and tests whether the observed level of coordinated firing is significantly different from that expected by chance. The method considers the full auto-structure of the data, including the changes in the rate responses and the history dependencies in the spiking activity. Also, the method accounts for trial-by-trial variability in the dataset, such as the variability of the rate responses and their latencies. NeuroXidence can be applied to short data windows lasting only tens of milliseconds, which enables the tracking of transient neuronal states correlated to information processing. We demonstrate, on both simulated data and single-unit activity recorded in cat visual cortex, that NeuroXidence discriminates reliably between significant and spurious events that occur by chance.
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