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Capturing correlation structure within a simplified population density framework
- Chin-Yueh Liu1Email author and
- Duane Q Nykamp1
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-9-S1-P7
© Liu and Nykamp; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2008
- Published: 11 July 2008
Keywords
- Animal Model
- Population Density
- Poisson Process
- Correlation Structure
- Density Framework
We have developed a population density framework that captures correlations between any pair of neurons in the population. Completely representing the correlation structure among neurons would require high-dimensional densities. Hence, we developed a method to simplify the correlation structure by approximating the input to each population of neurons as correlated Poisson processes. The key challenge we address is that of capturing the effect of delayed correlation with such simplified input. We demonstrate the ability of this approach to capture how correlations propagate through networks by comparing our results with Monte-Carlo simulations.
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