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@article{citeulike:574184, abstract = {The discrimination between two spike trains is a fundamental problem for both experimentalists and the nervous system itself. We introduce a measure for the distance between two spike trains. The distance has a time constant as a parameter. Depending on this parameter, the distance interpolates between a coincidence detector and a rate difference counter. The dependence of the distance on noise is studied with an integrate-and-fire model. For an intermediate range of the time constants, the distance depends linearly on the noise. This property can be used to determine the intrinsic noise of a neuron.}, address = {Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA.}, author = {van Rossum, M. C.}, citeulike-article-id = {574184}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://neco.mitpress.org/cgi/content/abstract/13/4/751}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11255567}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=11255567}, issn = {0899-7667}, journal = {Neural Comput}, keywords = {coding, distance, information}, month = {April}, number = {4}, pages = {751--763}, posted-at = {2007-09-26 18:43:54}, priority = {2}, title = {A novel spike distance.}, url = {http://neco.mitpress.org/cgi/content/abstract/13/4/751}, volume = {13}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:574184 L3 - citeulike-article-id:574184 N2 - The discrimination between two spike trains is a fundamental problem for both experimentalists and the nervous system itself. We introduce a measure for the distance between two spike trains. The distance has a time constant as a parameter. Depending on this parameter, the distance interpolates between a coincidence detector and a rate difference counter. The dependence of the distance on noise is studied with an integrate-and-fire model. For an intermediate range of the time constants, the distance depends linearly on the noise. This property can be used to determine the intrinsic noise of a neuron. IS - 4 JF - Neural Comput SN - 0899-7667 AD - Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA. EP - 763 TI - A novel spike distance. VL - 13 SP - 751 KW - coding KW - distance KW - information AU - van Rossum, MC PY - 2001/04// UR - http://neco.mitpress.org/cgi/content/abstract/13/4/751 ER -