Neurons in sensory systems convey information about physical stimuli in their spike trains. In
vitro, single neurons respond precisely and reliably to the repeated injection of the same …

Recent experimental and theoretical results have suggested the possibility that cortical
neurons may produce only a small number of distinct spiking patterns when stimulated …

When a cortical neuron is repeatedly injected with the same fluctuating current stimulus
(frozen noise) the timing of the spikes is highly precise from trial to trial and the spike pattern …

Spike-train analysis techniques provide an enormously powerful tool to study the neural
code. They only require extracellular recordings of a sensory neuron, and a register of the …

A common experimental method in neuroscience involves the recording of the activity of a
single neuron. However, studies of the functional connectivity of collections of neurons and …

Responses of neuronal populations play an important role in the encoding of stimulus
related information. However, the inherent multidimensionality required to describe …

A goal of low-level neural processes is to build an efficient code extracting the relevant
information from the sensory input. It is believed that this is implemented in cortical areas by …

Important questions in neuroscience, such as how neural activity represents the sensory
world, can be framed in terms of the extent to which spike trains differ from one another …

Publisher Summary Spike trains are a representation of neural activity. In
neurophysiological studies, spike trains are obtained by detecting intra-or extracellularly the …

The activity state of neuronal networks can be characterized by the spatial-temporal
grouping of their action potentials given a sufficiently large simultaneous recording sample …