A study of dependency features of spike trains through copulas

P Verzelli, L Sacerdote - Biosystems, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the progresses of statistical and machine learning techniques, simultaneous
recordings from many neurons hide important information and the connections …

Detecting dependencies between spike trains of pairs of neurons through copulas

L Sacerdote, M Tamborrino, C Zucca - Brain research, 2012 - Elsevier
The dynamics of a neuron are influenced by the connections with the network where it lies.
Recorded spike trains exhibit patterns due to the interactions between neurons. However …

A copulas approach to neuronal networks models

L Sacerdote, R Sirovich - Journal of Physiology-Paris, 2010 - Elsevier
Simultaneous recordings from groups of neurons request to improve models. To switch from
single unit description to multivariate models describing the coding activity of two or more …

[HTML][HTML] Towards an integrated approach to measurement, analysis and modeling of cortical networks

AR Rao, GA Cecchi, E Kaplan - Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Recent technological advances have led to an unprecedented increase in the volume and
detail of neuroscientific data, creating significant challenges for their processing and …

[HTML][HTML] Methods for identification of spike patterns in massively parallel spike trains

P Quaglio, V Rostami, E Torre, S Grün - Biological cybernetics, 2018 - Springer
Temporally, precise correlations between simultaneously recorded neurons have been
interpreted as signatures of cell assemblies, ie, groups of neurons that form processing …

[HTML][HTML] Extraction of network topology from multi-electrode recordings: is there a small-world effect?

F Gerhard, G Pipa, B Lima… - Frontiers in …, 2011 - frontiersin.org
The simultaneous recording of the activity of many neurons poses challenges for
multivariate data analysis. Here, we propose a general scheme of reconstruction of the …

Detecting connectivity changes in neuronal networks

T Berry, F Hamilton, N Peixoto, T Sauer - Journal of neuroscience methods, 2012 - Elsevier
We develop a method from semiparametric statistics (Cox, 1972) for the purpose of tracking
links and connection strengths over time in a neuronal network from spike train data. We …

A topological study of repetitive co-activation networks in in vitro cortical assemblies

V Pirino, E Riccomagno, S Martinoia… - Physical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
To address the issue of extracting useful information from large data-set of large scale
networks of neurons, we propose an algorithm that involves both algebraic-statistical and …

Learning the Synapses of a Network of Spiking Neurons

M Piccioni - impa.br
The influential paper by Galves and Locherbach (2013), where a network of spiking neurons
is modelled as a system of interacting point processes, has led naturally to the question of …

[PDF][PDF] From dynamics to links: a sparse reconstruction of the topology of a neural network

G Aletti, D Lonardoni, G Naldi, T Nieus - Communications in Applied …, 2019 - sciendo.com
One major challenge in neuroscience is the identification of interrelations between signals
reflecting neural activity and how information processing occurs in the neural circuits. At the …