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ArticleBiological cybernetics2018

Ergodicity and parameter estimates in auditory neural circuits.

Peter G Toth, Petr Marsalek, Ondrej Pokora

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Article in Biological cybernetics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Peter G TothInstitute of Pathological Physiology, First Medical Faculty, Charles University, U Nemocnice 5, 12853, Prague 2, Czech Republic.
Petr MarsalekMax Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Noethnitzer Strasse 38, 01187, Dresden, Germany. Marsalek@pks.mpg.de.
Ondrej PokoraDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, 61137, Brno, Czech Republic.

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Abstract

This paper discusses ergodic properties and circular statistical characteristics in neuronal spike trains. Ergodicity means that the average taken over a long time period and over smaller population should equal the average in less time and larger population. The objectives are to show simple examples of design and validation of a neuronal model, where the ergodicity assumption helps find correspondence between variables and parameters. The methods used are analytical and numerical computations, numerical models of phenomenological spiking neurons and neuronal circuits. Results obtained using these methods are the following. They are: a formula to calculate vector strength of neural spike timing dependent on the spike train parameters, description of parameters of spike train variability and model of output spiking density based on assumption of the computation realized by sound localization neural circuit. Theoretical results are illustrated by references to experimental data. Examples of neurons where spike trains have and do not have the ergodic property are then discussed.

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Models, NeurologicalProbabilityAction PotentialsAnimalsAuditory PathwaysAuditory PerceptionComputer SimulationHearingHumansNerve NetNeuronsTime FactorsAuditory pathwayCircular statisticsErgodicityErgodic theoryInterspike intervalProbability distribution functionSensory modalitySpike timing jitterVector strength

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PMID29082437
PMCPMC5908860

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