Synchronization and Functional Connectivity in Neural Systems
Last update: 21 Apr 2025 21:17
First version: 16 June 2006
See also:
Synchronization;
Neural Coding;
Neuroscience
Recommended:
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Predictions: Oscillations and Synchrony in Top-Down Processing", Nature
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time.]
Modesty forbids me to recommend:
- Kristina Lisa Klinkner, CRS, and Marcelo F. Camperi, "Measuring
Shared Information and Coordinated Activity in Neuronal Networks", q-bio.NC/0506009
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[PDF
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[PDF]
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measure of synchrony, the conditional synchrony measure, which is the
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active. Focus is on the specification of a flexible marginal model for
multivariate correlated binary data together with a pseudolikelihood estimation
approach..."]
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Process in Cortical
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To write (with Klinkner and Camperi, in various permutations):
- "Scale, Sparseness and Synchrony in Model Neuronal Networks"
- "A Comparison of Neuronal Synchrony Measures"