From: Sarah Gingell (sarah@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 04:34:09 MDT
Hi, Rushi,
I can't imagine where you got my name from, but I'm afraid that
spike-train analysis is not really my area... Therefore I cannot
comment on the "feability of an analysis > similar to the ones
mentioned above".
I can however tell you that there is "excess firing variance" in
hippocampal pyramidal cells that fire in correlation to place (usually
called "place cells".) That is, the variance of firing of these cells
in apparently identical situations is greater than that predicted by
the less-than-perfect nature of neurones. See various papers by
Muller such as the paper below:
@Article{fenton_muller_98,
author = {A. A. Fenton and R. U. Muller},
title = {Place cell discharge is extremely variable during individual passes of the rat through the firing field},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
year = 1998,
volume = 95,
number = 6,
pages = {3182-3187}
}
Sorry I can't be of much help.
Sarah.
>
> >From rushi@cs.iastate.edu Fri Mar 31 14:55:05 2000
> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:52:42 -0600 (CST)
> From: Rushi Bhatt <rushi@cs.iastate.edu>
> To: comp-neuro@bbb.caltech.edu
> Subject: Spike Train analysis literature:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if there are any publications on the spike-train analysis
> (repeatibility/variability analysis) of rodent Hippocampal pyramidal cells
> in a behaving animal.
>
> The only relevant papers I could find were some reports on the fly H1
> neuron and the Cricket system, and one by Mainen&Sejnowski on Neocortical
> Neurons from Medline searches.
>
> Also, I would greatly appreciate advice on feasibility of an analysis
> similar to the ones mentioned above.
>
> Sincerely,
> Rushi Bhatt
> (Grad Student
> Computer Science/Neuroscience, ISU)
>
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